Male secondary sexual characteristics, sexual selection, and molecular divergence in fanged ranid frogs of Southeast Asia

Hormonal induction of thumb pads and the

Hormonal induction of thumb pads and the evolution of secondary sexual characteristics of the Southeast Asian fanged frog,Rana blythii

✍ Emerson, Sharon B.; Carroll, Lara; Hess, David L. 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 206 KB

The fanged frogs of Southeast Asia do not express most of the hormone-dependent secondary sexual characteristics such as thumb pads that are common to other ranid frogs. At the same point in the evolutionary history of the group that these androgen-mediated characteristics are lost, male parental ca