Blood cells and hematological parameters of Chiala Mountain Salamander, Batrachuperus karlschmidti (Urodela, Hynobiidae) by Xiuying Liu, Zhangqiang You, Wei Luo, Jianli Xiong, Guangli Wang

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Fgf-signaling is compartmentalized within the mesenchyme and controls proliferation during salamander limb development by Sruthi Purushothaman, Ahmed Elewa, Ashley W Seifert

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Observations of extreme dehydration and rehydration leading to recovery of a threatened California tiger salamander by Zachary A. Cava, Kyla M. Garten, Sarah M. Foster, Jeff A. Alvarez

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A new relict stem salamander from the Early Cretaceous of Yakutia, Siberian Russia by Pavel P. Skutschas, Veniamin V. Kolchanov, Alexander O. Averianov, Thomas Martin, Rico Schellhorn, Petr N. Kolosov, Dmitry D. Vitenko

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Middle Jurassic stem hynobiids from China shed light on the evolution of basal salamanders by Jia Jia, Jason S. Anderson, Ke-Qin Gao

“…Summary: The Hynobiidae are an early-diverging clade of crown-group salamanders (urodeles) with an important bearing on the evolution of urodeles. …”
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Distribution, habitat suitability, conservation state and natural history of endangered salamander Bolitoglossa pandi by Teddy Angarita-Sierra, M. Argenis Bonilla-Gómez, David A. Sánchez, Andres R. Acosta-Galvis, Hefzi Medina-Ovalle, Anggi Solano-Moreno, Simon Ulloa-Rengifo, Daniela Guevara-Guevara, Juan J. Torres-Ramirez, Sebastián Curaca-Fierro, Diego M. Cabrera-Amaya, Jhon A. Infante-Betancour, Luisa F. Londoño-Montaño, Diana X. Albarán-Montoya, Lesly R. Peña-Baez

“…Background Pandi’s mushroom-tongue salamander (Bolitoglossa pandi) is one of the threatened amphibians in South America, as well as a flagship species for the Colombian conservation agenda. …”
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Phylogeographic analyses point to long-term survival on the spot in micro-endemic Lycian salamanders. by Michael Veith, Bayram Göçmen, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Karolos Eleftherakos, Stefan Lötters, Olaf Godmann, Mert Karış, Anil Oğuz, Sarah Ehl

“…Lycian salamanders (genus Lyciasalamandra) constitute an exceptional case of micro-endemism of an amphibian species on the Asian Minor mainland. …”
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A de novo reference transcriptome for Bolitoglossa vallecula, an Andean mountain salamander in Colombia by Claudia M. Arenas Gómez, M. Ryan Woodcock, Jeramiah J. Smith, S. Randal Voss, Jean Paul Delgado

“…However, there is need to generate transcriptome data from representative species of the primary salamander families. Here we describe a de novo reference transcriptome for a terrestrial salamander, Bolitoglossa vallecula (Caudata: Plethodontidae). …”
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Genomic Data Reveal Conserved Female Heterogamety in Giant Salamanders with Gigantic Nuclear Genomes by Paul M. Hime, Jeffrey T. Briggler, Joshua S. Reece, David W. Weisrock

“…These findings inform hypotheses about the ancestral mode of sex determination in salamanders, but suggest that comparative data from other salamander families are needed. …”
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Ethogram of the Chinese Giant Salamander during the Breeding Period Based on the PAE Coding System by Shouliang Luo, Pei Wang, Yifang Zhang, Ziteng Wang, He Tian, Qinghua Luo

Subjects: “…Chinese giant salamander (<i>Andrias davidianus</i>)…”
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Identification of Mutant Genes and Introgressed Tiger Salamander DNA in the Laboratory Axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum by M. Ryan Woodcock, Jennifer Vaughn-Wolfe, Alexandra Elias, D. Kevin Kump, Katharina Denise Kendall, Nataliya Timoshevskaya, Vladimir Timoshevskiy, Dustin W. Perry, Jeramiah J. Smith, Jessica E. Spiewak, David M. Parichy, S. Randal Voss

“…Finally, we show that historical introgression of tyr a significantly altered genomic composition of the laboratory axolotl, yielding a distinct, hybrid strain of ambystomatid salamander. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of identifying genes for traits in the laboratory Mexican axolotl.…”
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Embryo development inside female salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum-laterale) prior to egg laying. by Noah D Charney, John J Castorino, Megan J Dobro, Sarah L Steely

“…The length of embryo retention prior to oviposition is a critical evolutionary trait. In all oviparous salamanders, which include the vast majority of species in the order, fertilization is thought to occur at the time of egg laying. …”
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Genic regions of a large salamander genome contain long introns and novel genes by Bryant Susan V, Hunter Tony, Verma Inder M, Pao Gerald M, Zhu Wei, Putta Srikrishna, Smith Jeramiah J, Gardiner David M, Harkins Timothy T, Voss S Randal

“…These intronic sequences may harbor novel coding and non-coding sequences that regulate biological processes that are unique to salamanders.</p>…”
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Performance of different automatic photographic identification software for larvae and adults of the European fire salamander. by Laura Schulte, Charlotte Faul, Pia Oswald, Kathleen Preißler, Sebastian Steinfartz, Michael Veith, Barbara A Caspers

“…We used another dataset of European fire salamander adult pictures taken in the field and tested this using all five software. …”
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Using historical dip net data to infer absence of flatwoods salamanders in stochastic environments by George C. Brooks, Carola A. Haas

“…We investigate how annual variability in detection influences long-term monitoring efforts of Reticulated Flatwoods Salamanders (Ambystoma bishopi) breeding in 29 wetlands in Florida. …”
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Digits lost or gained? Evidence for pedal evolution in the dwarf salamander complex (Eurycea, Plethodontidae). by Trip Lamb, David A Beamer

“…Although digit loss has been documented among distantly related species of salamanders, it is relatively uncommon in this amphibian order. …”
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Fostering Children’s Connection to Nature Through Authentic Situations: The Case of Saving Salamanders at School by Stephan Barthel, Stephan Barthel, Sophie Belton, Christopher M. Raymond, Matteo Giusti

“…It draws on a longitudinal case study of children participating in a stewardship project involving the conservation of salamanders during the school day in Stockholm, Sweden. …”
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Thermal cues drive plasticity of desiccation resistance in montane salamanders with implications for climate change by Eric A. Riddell, Emma Y. Roback, Christina E. Wells, Kelly R. Zamudio, Michael W. Sears

“…Here, authors demonstrate that salamanders regulate water loss using temperature-sensitive gene expression related to blood vessel regeneration and skin lipids.…”
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Heart regeneration in the salamander relies on macrophage-mediated control of fibroblast activation and the extracellular landscape by J. W. Godwin, R. Debuque, E. Salimova, N. A. Rosenthal

“…Macrophages necessary for heart regeneration Heart regeneration in salamanders is dependent on the activation of immune cells. …”
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Landscape and management factors influence the occupancy dynamics of sympatric salamanders in an urban preserve system by John P. Vanek, Richard B. King, Gary A. Glowacki

“…To address these knowledge gaps, we used 10 years of monitoring data to investigate patterns of occupancy, detectability, and population turnover for sympatric Ambystoma laterale (Blue-spotted Salamanders) and A. tigrinum (Eastern Tiger Salamanders; hereafter Tiger Salamanders) inhabiting 26 suburban preserves in the third largest metropolitan area in the United States, Chicago. …”
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