SquaMates Ep. 10: The Rhacodactylus at the End of the Universe
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Belated and disorganised, but it is finally here! Episode ten, with the Mates, Mark D. Scherz, Gabriel Ugueto, and Ethan Kocak, talking about the hottest new research in herpetology since March 2019! In this tenth episode, we talk about glowing frogs, diving snakes, twitter’s greatest HERpetologists, and New Caledonian geckos! Episode notes sometimes get clipped on your device or by your podcast provider; for full (extensive) notes (and references), go to http://www.squamatespod.com Works in Frogress: Mark’s new paper on Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature came out! Read Mark’s new paper describing Brookesia tedi Listen to Mark’s notes from the field on the Chameleon Breeder Podcast Breaking Newts: World Congress of Herpetology 2020 SEH Herpetological Conference 2019 Rasys AM, Park S, Ball RE, Alcala AJ, Lauderdale JD, Menke DB (2019) CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Lizards Through Microinjection of Unfertilized Oocytes. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/591446 Schield DR, Card DC, Hales NR, Perry BW, Pasquesi GM, Blackmon H, Adams RH, Corbin AB, Smith CF, Ramesh B, Demuth JP, Betrán E, Tollis M, Meik JM, Mackessy SP, Castoe TA (2019) The origins and evolution of chromosomes, dosage compensation, and mechanisms underlying venom regulation in snakes. Genome Research. doi: 10.1101/gr.240952.118 Goutte S, Mason MJ, Antoniazzi MM, Jared C, Merle D, Cazes L, Toledo LF, el-Hafci H, Pallu S, Portier H, Schramm S, Gueriau P, Thoury M (2019) Intense bone fluorescence reveals hidden patterns in pumpkin toadlets. Scientific Reports 9(1): 5388. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41959-8 — follow Sandra on twitter! Rebouças R, Carollo AB, de Oliveira Freitas M, Lambertini C, dos Santos RMN, Toledo LF (2019) Is the conspicuous dorsal coloration of the Atlantic forest pumpkin toadlets aposematic? Salamandra 55(1): 39–47. [pdf] Gray RJ (2019) Biofluorescent lateral patterning on the mossy bushfrog (Philautus macroscelis): the first report of biofluorescence in a rhacophorid frog. Herpetology Notes 12(363–364). [pdf] — Mark was wrong, this was the rhacophorid frog he was thinking of Vági B, Végvári Z, Liker A, Freckleton Robert P, Székely T (2019) Parental care and the evolution of terrestriality in frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286(1900): 20182737. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2737 Shine R (1979) Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism in the Amphibia. Copeia 1979(2): 297–306. — this is the paper Mark mentioned about reasons that male frogs sometimes get larger than femal...