Since their discovery, the study of maternal mRNA s has led to the identification of
mechanisms underlying their spatiotemporal regulation within the context of oogenesis and�…

The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution
arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only codes that are recognized by�…

As amphibian populations continue to decline, both government and non-government
organisations are establishing captive assurance colonies to secure populations deemed at�…

To assess the significance of macromolecular sequence differences among species, we
compared the serum albumins of 81 pairs of vertebrate species capable of producing viable�…

Amphibian anomalies have been a source of curiosity for centuries and the literature on this
topic is enormous. We provide a comprehensive overview of the anomalies that have been�…

Birds have lost the potential for interspecific hybridization slowly. This inference emerges
from protein comparisons made on 36 pairs of bird species capable of hybridization. Micro�…

In plants, Polyploidy is recognized to be a wide-spread phenomenon and of considerable
practical and evolutionary importance, whereas polyploid animal species have been�…

Understanding the general features of speciation is an important goal in evolutionary
biology, and despite significant progress, several unresolved questions remain. We�…

Frogs of the genus Rana are among the most commonly studied vertebrates in laboratories
worldwide. In primary schools, children often learn about reproduction and development by�…

The nomenclatural consequences of the recent rediscovery of the works of Garsault (1764,
1765, 1767) in amphibians and reptiles are examined in detail. The 13 new nomina of these�…