The tadpoles of some species, such as the bullfrog, take as long as two years to metamorphose into young frogs. |
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These amphibians, like modern frogs and salamanders, hatched from eggs and spent their larval period in the water as tadpoles. |
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Axillary amplexus typically results in long strings of eggs being laid in ponds or streams, which hatch into type IV tadpoles. |
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For example anuran tadpoles cannot disperse from their natal pond during development. |
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The average masses of the small bullfrogs and green frogs were determined by weighing 60 haphazardly chosen tadpoles from the populations used. |
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In Rhinoderma darwinii, males retain the tadpoles in their vocal sacs until the young metamorphose. |
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The tadpoles used in this experiment feed primarily on periphyton by scraping the surfaces of tank walls and leaves. |
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Observations were spaced at least 10 min apart and consisted of a count of the number of tadpoles active and resting inactively. |
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I would get my boys out of the classroom, and we'd be in a field all day long chasing tadpoles and pollywogs and looking at swamp water. |
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These tadpoles have large frontal eyes and probably direct their prey capture strikes visually. |
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Some lay their eggs in damp leaf litter, some create nests of foam, and some even carry their eggs or tadpoles in pouches on their backs. |
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Despite their enormous size as adults, eggs and tadpoles of goliath frogs are about the same size as those of other frogs. |
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Thyroid hormones were extracted from tadpoles following previously described methods. |
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A biologist at the University of Arizona, Rosen studies what insects and fish prey on bullfrog tadpoles. |
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The eggs of most frogs hatch into aquatic, free-swimming larvae, commonly known as tadpoles. |
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From 1996 to 1998, I collected tadpoles of 13 anuran species from eastern North America. |
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Introducing water plants and scavengers such as water snails and tadpoles into a pond is an easier and less expensive solution. |
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Also see fishlike tadpoles that will later metamorphose into American bullfrogs, sprouting legs and losing their tails. |
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Ordinarily, between 6 and 11 percent of leopard frog tadpoles survive and metamorphose into adults. |
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Trilling frog tadpoles can metamorphose within 17 days, pumping the same hormone through their systems that induces premature births in humans. |
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Over a period of several days, the male frog watches the eggs hatch into tiny tadpoles. |
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The tadpoles of Amolops species are torrent-adapted, and have suctorial disks on their bellies. |
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Snails and tadpoles are nature's garbage disposals, feeding on decaying plant material and fish waste. |
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Notochords are the axial skeleton of invertebrate chordates, of agnathan fish, and of amphibian tadpoles. |
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But for me the term always conjures up childhood memories of rooting about in an old canal in my wellingtons and putting tadpoles in a jam jar. |
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The water in the pond was crystal clear with only the aforementioned tadpoles swimming in the water. |
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Axial movements in tadpoles are regulated by a diverse array of muscle activity in a manner similar to anguilliform fishes. |
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The young snakes prey on recently hatched steelhead trout and chinook salmon and on the tadpoles of yellow-legged frogs. |
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Biologists now find that slightly elevated UV exposure reduces the chance that tadpoles will become frogs. |
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These species tend to have shorter larval periods on average when compared to tadpoles that develop in more permanent ponds. |
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As the tadpoles become frogs, the gills initially used to breathe are replaced with lungs. |
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The cells divide and change until they have a head and short tail, like tadpoles. |
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They will also prey on crayfish, frogs, tadpoles, and other aquatic dwellers. |
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We have observed that green frog tadpoles react less strongly to predators at very low resource levels. |
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In several species, a parent remains with the non-feeding tadpoles at the nest. |
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Most tadpoles are suspension feeders, filtering out tiny particles while continuously pumping water. |
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In amphibian tadpoles, however, the function of the axial muscles appear to be for lateral bending alone. |
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These ponds often dry out, killing the tadpoles, before they can change into toadlets and leave the pond. |
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Later in the summer, 13 toadlets were observed outside the pond showing that some of the tadpoles had survived the difficult conditions. |
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Additionally, these tadpoles become toadlets unusually early, so they are out of the water and hopping around faster than most other frogs. |
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Those that survive to become tadpoles often have misshapen mouths and are unable to feed properly. |
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This overall morphological simplicity, in theory, makes tadpoles good models for exploring how vertebrates control undulatory movements. |
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Inside the pouch, the tadpoles live on the yolk leftover from their hatching. |
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Two classes of these high-affinity binding reagents are currently used: aptamers and tadpoles. |
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When developed, the young tadpoles wriggle free of the egg clump and drop into the water to continue to develop into froglets. |
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The tadpoles have come to life, the dog has recovered, the kitchen's illuminated by daffodils. |
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A secretion prevents the young tadpoles from being decomposed by the gastric acids and enzymes. |
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The tadpoles were left to develop naturally in the tanks over the summer until the test ended in September. |
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The researchers also gathered evidence that atrazine exposure affected the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis in the tadpoles. |
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In the mother's stomach, the tadpoles secreted a substance that prevented their being digested. |
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The hatching success and survival of tadpoles were determined for each cage. |
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They are aggressive predators that feed on insects and other invertebrates, tadpoles and even small fish. |
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Only the tadpoles that were exposed to cercariae developed deformities. |
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The algae-rich water teems with tadpoles, elodea, and finger-size fish. |
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Whooping crane young are fed dragonfly larvae, insects and tadpoles. |
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Just before metamorphosis, the tadpoles weigh only a fraction of an ounce. |
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Biology: Richard Wassersug for Comparison of the taste of tadpoles in the dry season in Costa Rica. |
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Spadefoot toad tadpoles and other species that develop in ephemeral pools have evolved traits that allow for successful development in an unpredictable environment. |
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Eggs and tadpoles of Rheobatrachus develop in the stomach of the mother. |
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This increased force could permit wood frog tadpoles to scrape a type of periphyton that is more resistant to harvest or to harvest periphyton more efficiently. |
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The free-swimming tadpoles produced by sexual reproduction live only a few days, during which time they can be spread by tidal and storm currents to form new colonies. |
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But while eggs and tadpoles thus escape becoming a meal for a predator, they must develop into froglets by the time the pools have dried up in late June or early July. |
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The mother later returns, repeatedly, to each of her tadpoles, which have reduced beaks and denticles, and deposits unfertilized eggs for them to eat. |
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She pointed out damselfly larva, water beetles, tadpoles, backswimmers, dragon fly larva and snails as they circled around in our tiny sample of the marsh. |
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One of only four aquatic frogs known to live in Australia, this frog inhabits the continent's driest areas, hunting in gilgais after rain for insects, shrimps and tadpoles. |
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Visiting a local conservation area may afford you the opportunity of observing some pond life such as tadpoles and polliwogs. |
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King Neptune's Law states that neophytes go from being tadpoles to shellbacks after the crossing. |
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When Briggs and King first succeeded in cloning tadpoles, they transferred embryo cell nuclei into enucleated eggs. |
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They also feed on small crayfish, minnows, tadpoles, worms, and insects. |
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Nonfeeding tadpoles develop in the inguinal brood pouches of male Assa. |
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Toad tadpoles appear to be distasteful to many predators, and, perhaps as a result of this, are much more often to be seen in open water than those of the common frog. |
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The tadpoles can also turn in much wider arcs, which they do spontaneously, when they initiate swimming from rest, and in the course of normal locomotion. |
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Eggs hatch into tadpoles, which graze on algae for about 9 to 12 weeks, until they are ready to metamorphose into adults. |
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Luckily, the tadpoles mature into toadlets in less than two weeks. |
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I kept tadpoles and frogs, raised orphaned birds successfully, learned to tell time by the sun, and the temperature by the rate at which crickets and katydids chirped. |
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Three of 11 pools surveyed dried before any tadpoles could metamorphose. |
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Eggs are laid in gelatinous strings in the water and later hatch out into tadpoles. |
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Measures were taken to protect the rare tailed frog and its habitat, including building a specially-designed creek channel and relocating by hand several hundred tadpoles and adult frogs. |
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Predation on peridomestic mosquitoes by Hylid tadpoles on Grand Bahama Island. |
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The type 2 and type 3 iodothyronine deiodinases play important roles in coordinating development in Rana catesbeiana tadpoles. |
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Another study investigated whether the use of nitrogenous fertilisers affects the development of common toad tadpoles. |
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Some salamanders and toads have tadpoles that occur in two forms, one of which has a specialized head that allows it to cannibalize other tadpoles of the same species. |
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The contrasting realm of the goddess Venus, whose orgiastic house parties waylay the troubadour Tannhäuser, takes the form of a circular cage inhabited by furry, Neanderthal-like figures and several giant tadpoles. |
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In the northern part of its range in North America, the tadpoles of the bullfrog L. catesbeianus require three years to undergo their development. |
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In addition, the New York university research centre has shown that tadpoles suffer malformations and do not reach adulthood in cases of prolonged exposure to artificial light. |
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Although it targets tadpoles, there's a chance that adults could also carry it and serve as amphibian Typhoid Marys. |
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This is why the announcement earlier this month that ZSL's London Zoo had succeeded in rearing the first ever captive Lake Oku clawed frog tadpoles and juveniles is so important. |
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The widely spaced eyes of the tadpoles migrate to the top of the head, the mouth and internal organs change shape, lungs form, gills diminish and the wide-finned tail is absorbed after legs grow. |
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The tadpoles also exude noxious substances which deter fishes from eating them but not the great crested newt. |
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This axis helps regulate development, and the team found that at least half of the exposed tadpoles were unable to metamorphose into juvenile animals by the end of the experiment. |
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Aquatic invertebrates that feed on toad tadpoles include dragonfly larvae, diving beetles and water boatmen. |
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The strings of eggs absorb water and swell in size, and small tadpoles hatch out after two to three weeks. |
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It was also the first lab to report on the effects of some toxic substances on tadpoles, and it is currently collaborating on studying the effects of low-level pharmaceuticals on these tiny creatures. |
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It eats soft-bodied invertebrates such as slugs, worms, snails, leeches, as well as tadpoles, frogs, other snakes, mice and freshwater and marine fish. |
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Children study insect larvae and tadpoles in paper cups inside a classroom instead of having their knowledge filled out by examining the complex environment in which these creatures actually live. |
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They go on to larger items, such as tadpoles and snails, as they grow stronger, and finally begin dabbling for the seeds and tubers, or fleshy roots, of a variety of aquatic plants, as the adults do at this time of year. |
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When the eggs hatched the number of tadpoles was counted. |
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Among Darwin frogs, it is the male who swallows and stores the developing tadpoles in his vocal sac until juvenile frogs emerge. |
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Most of his research has been on amphibians such as tadpoles. |
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When tadpoles of southern leopard frogs and green tree frogs were put in water tainted with that level of chlorothalonil, all 18 died within 24 hours. |
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Wormcast butties, tubes of glue, Pans of slugs in slimy stew, Bogey burgers, brown rat roast, Fat Black tadpoles squashed on toast, Washed down with a cup of string. |
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Applying this protocol to germinally transgenic tadpoles, we were able to reveal the actions of the preemergent herbicide acetochlor through increased TH responses. |
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No animals were dissected to identify deformities of the mouth or internal organs and no tadpoles were assessed for mouthpart abnormalities or other deformities. |
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I explained that male Darwin's frogs carry tadpoles in their vocal sacs. |
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Studies have shown that the Welsh populations mostly predate freshwater crustaceans, though fears exist that this large anuran may also feed on the tadpoles of native species. |
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A final treatment contained no snails, tadpoles, or water bugs to test for direct effects of grazers and indirect effects of water bugs on periphytic algae. |
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On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids. |
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Differences in developmental rates of tadpoles and in snout-vent length and body mass of metamorphs and juveniles were also analyzed with general linear models. |
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