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The changing views on the evolutionary relationships of extant Salamandridae (Amphibia: Urodela) Universiteit Gent
Chemistry Between Salamanders: Evolution of the SPF Courtship Pheromone System in Salamandridae Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Chemical communication is an important aspect of courtship and reproduction in salamanders (Urodela), where males secrete several protein pheromones from various sexually dimorphic glands. The most widely used sex pheromone system consists of proteins of the Sodefrin Precursor-like Factor (SPF) family. This protein family already started diversifying through gene duplications in the Late Palaeozoic and continued to do so in various urodelan ...
High pheromone diversity in the male cheek gland of the red-spotted newt Notophthalmus viridescens (Salamandridae) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Background
Male salamanders (Urodela) often make use of pheromones that are produced in sexually dimorphic glands to persuade the female into courtship and mating. The mental gland of lungless salamanders (Plethodontidae) and dorsal cloacal glands (or abdominal glands) of newts (Salamandridae) have been particularly well studied in that respect. In both families, sodefrin precursor-like factor (SPF) proteins have been identified as major ...
Male salamanders (Urodela) often make use of pheromones that are produced in sexually dimorphic glands to persuade the female into courtship and mating. The mental gland of lungless salamanders (Plethodontidae) and dorsal cloacal glands (or abdominal glands) of newts (Salamandridae) have been particularly well studied in that respect. In both families, sodefrin precursor-like factor (SPF) proteins have been identified as major ...
New localities of the Kurdistan newt Neurergus microspilotus and Lake Urmia newt Neurergus crocatus ( Caudata : Salamandridae ) in Iraq Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
Little is known about the distribution and current conservation status of the two spe- cies of mountain dwelling newts of the genus Neurergus found in the Zagros Mountain in northern and northeastern Iraq: the Critically Endangered Kurdistan newt Neurergus microspilotus (Nesterov 1916), and the vulnerable Lake Urmia newt Neurergus crocatus (Cope 1862). Surveys in the Kurd- istan region of northeastern Iraq from 2007 to 2012 resulted in the ...
Ecology of Kurdistan newt ( Neurergus microspilotus : Salamandridae ): Population and conservation with an appraisal of the potential impact of urbanization Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
The Kurdistan newt, Neurergus microspilotus Nesterov, 1916, inhabits springs, ponds, brooks, streams, and wet caves in the western Iranian Plateau in both Iran and Iraq. The Iranian distribution of N. microspilotus is limited to Kurdistan and Kermanshah Provinces. Several major populations of N. microspilotus are threatened by urban development. We gathered autecological data of N. microspilotus and evaluated factors that may affect the ...