David R. Vieites

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

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Miguel Vences

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Frank Glaw

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Jörn Köhler

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero

University College Dublin

Salvador Herrando Pérez

University of Adelaide

Mark D. Scherz

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Angelica Crottini

Universidade do Porto

Salvador Herrando‐Pérez

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Sandra Nieto-Román

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Raquel Ponti

University of the Basque Country

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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

University of California, Berkeley

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Universidade do Porto

Natural History Museum

University of Antananarivo

Universitat de Barcelona

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

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The Challenge of Conserving Amphibian Megadiversity in Madagascar

PLoS Biology (2008)

Franco Andreone Angus I. Carpenter Neil A. Cox Louis Du Preez Karen Freeman

Highly diverse and so far apparently untouched by emergent diseases, Malagasy frogs nevertheless are threatened by ongoing habitat destruction, making pro-active conservation actions especially important for preserving this unique, pre-decline, amphibian fauna.

10.1371/journal.pbio.0060118

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NA2RE is reliable but aims for improvement: an answer to Vamberger and Fritz (2018)

Biologia (2018)

Neftalí Sillero João C. Campos Anna Bonardi Claudia Corti Raymond Creemers

Flagging

Environmental niche modelling

Species distribution

10.2478/s11756-018-0133-3

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Specialist or generalist? Feeding ecology of the Malagasy poison frog Mantella aurantiaca

Herpetological Journal (2007)

Cindy Woodhead Miguel Vences David R. Vieites Ilona Gamboni Brian L. Fisher

We studied the diet of a population of free-ranging Mantella aurantiaca, an alkaloid-containing poison frog from Madagascar. As in other poison frogs, this species is thought to sequester alkaloids from arthropod prey. Among prey, mites and ants are known to regularly contain alkaloids and mites appear to be a major source of dietary alkaloids in poison frogs. We predicted that mites and ants would constitute the most important prey item for these frogs. Prey inventories were obtained during the rainy season by stomach flushing 23 adult male and 42 adult female frogs from one population. Males had smaller body sizes than females and ate smaller prey items, but males and females displayed no differences in the number of prey items consumed. The numerical proportion of ants in most specimens was surprisingly low (11% in males and 15% in females), while mites were slightly more frequent (34% in males and 18% in females). Other prey items consumed in large proportions were flies and collembolans. Comparing the total of 5492 arthropod prey items with 1867 arthropods sampled from the frogs' leaf litter habitat, the proportion of prey classes did not significantly differ among the samples, indicating a low degree of prey electivity in this population. Our data suggest that not all poison frogs exhibit a continuous and active preference for feeding on ants and mites, but instead some may consume high proportions of ants due to a high abundance of ants in their environment.

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Towards completion of the species inventory of small-sized leaf-tailed geckos: two new species of Uroplatus from northern Madagascar

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2020)

Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina Frank Glaw Achille P. Raselimanana Andolalao Rakotoarison David R. Vieites

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Glaw, Frank, Raselimanana, Achille P., Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Vieites, David R., Hawlitschek, Oliver, Vences, Miguel, Scherz, Mark D. (2020): Towards completion of the species inventory of small-sized leaf-tailed geckos: two new species of Uroplatus from northern Madagascar. Zootaxa 4895 (2): 251-271, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.5

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Atlantic forest

10.15468/3rrn2d

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A new large and colorful skink of the genus Amphiglossus from Madagascar revealed by morphology and multilocus molecular study

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2011)

Aurélien Miralles Achille P. Raselimanana Domoina Rakotomalala Miguel Vences David R. Vieites

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10.5281/zenodo.277878

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Phylogenomic inference of species and subspecies diversity in the Palearctic salamander genus Salamandra

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2020)

James D. Burgon Miguel Vences Sebastian Steinfartz Sergé Bogaerts Lucio Bonato

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10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107063

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Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) of large amphibian genomes: a comparative study of two non-model species endemic to Italy: supplementary material

Valentina Rovelli Aritz Ruiz‐González Leonardo Vignoli Daniele Macale Vincenzo Buono

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and related technologies have revolutionized the field of conservation and population genetics, providing novel tools and the capacity to discover thousands of new Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) for the analysis of population parameters. However, gathering NGS data for organisms with very large genomes, such as amphibians, remains challenging because it is still unclear how the current methods perform. Here, we use the Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) approach to generate SNP data for the genotyping of two amphibian species that are of conservation concern, the Sardinian brook salamander (Euproctus platycephalus) and the Italian stream frog (Rana italica). Both E. platycephalus and R. italica have very large genomes (5.53 Gb and >20 Gb, respectively) so genomic data are not available for either of them. We used 95 individual samples and one Illumina lane for each species, with an additional lane for E. platycephalus. After filtering, we obtained 961 and 854 high-coverage SNPs for E. platycephalus and R. italica, respectively. Our results suggest that GBS can serve as a reliable and cost-effective method for genotyping large amphibian genomes, including non-model species.

SNP genotyping

10.6084/m9.figshare.7392227.v1

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Morphological variation inBlommersiapelvic shape coincides with muscular architecture and parallels genus phylogenetic evolution

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2019)

Javier H. Santos‐Santos Mireia Guinovart-Castán David R. Vieites

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Variation (astronomy)

10.1101/586248

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A molecular survey across Madagascar does not yield positive records of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

Vance T. Vredenburg Louis Du Preez Liliane Raharivololoniaina David R. Vieites Miguel Vences

Madagascar harbors a rich and diverse amphibian fauna, with over 280 nominal species of native frogs, all of which are endemic to the island. Although many species are threatened predominantly by habitat destruction, so far this fauna has not experienced any enigmatic declines as amphibians have in other parts of the globe. The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), associated with mass amphibian die offs in Europe, the Americas and Australia has so far not been detected in Madagascar, but surveys so far were based mainly on histological examination of frog samples, with molecular data from only a single site. Here, we present results from a molecular screening of altogether 300 frog specimens belonging to 53 species in 13 genera, from 12 sites throughout Madagascar spanning all of Madagascar's major bioclimatic regions and an array of different elevations from 20 to 2400 m above sea level. All samples were analyzed using a standard quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay and yielded only negative results, suggesting the widespread absence or very localized and low prevalence of the amphibian chytrid fungus across Madagascar during the sampling years 2006 and 2007.

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Complete mitochondrial genome of the Malagasy poison frogMantella baronithrough RNAseq

Cogent Biology (2019)

Yasmireilda Richard David R. Vieites Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina

Within the Malagasy endemic family of Mantellidae, the only completely sequenced mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) is that of Mantella madagascariensis. Yet, this genome has proven to be the largest among all vertebrates with 23 kbp in size, and shows a duplication of the tRNA methionine coding gene, a pseudogene of this same gene and a duplicated control region. In this study, we report the complete mitochondrial genome of Mantella baroni, the second mitogenome sequenced for the Mantellidae family. This genome sequence has been generated using next-generation sequencing technics performed on Illumina Hi-seq. The genome is 20,945 bp (21 kbp) in size with 13 protein-coding genes, 23 tRNA coding genes, 2 rRNA coding genes and 2 Control Regions (CR1 and CR2). This newly generated mitogenome shows duplication of the tRNA glycine coding gene (G1 and G2) and translocation of tRNA methionine coding gene M2 in the CR2. This gene organization is unique among anurans. Both M. baroni and M. madagascariensis mitogenomes are amongst the largest in vertebrates which might be related to their aposematism or their skin toxicity by alkaloid secretion. We also hypothesize that other Mantella species likely have large genomes, being not clear how the genome size and organization of mitochondria evolved in Malagasy frogs. Testing such a hypothesis require more mitogenome sequencing for Mantella and other representatives of the mantellid diversity. The mitogenome generated here will be useful for comparative genomic studies but also to answer the question on how mitogenomes evolved in the Mantellidae family.

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10.1080/23312025.2019.1679327

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