One hundred million years of skin feeding? Extended parental care in a Neotropical caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 358-361

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a   Kupfer, Alexander ^b   Marques Porto, Rafael ^c   Jeffkins, Hilary ^d   Antoniazzi, Marta M ^c   Jared, Carlos ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^d BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Dermatophagy; Siphonops; Skin; Teeth

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ANCESTRY; COEVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PARENTAL CARE; SKIN; SPECIALIZATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVIPARITY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIPHONOPS ANNULATUS; SKIN; TOOTH; VIVIPARITY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; CAECILIA; GYMNOPHIONA; SCOLECOMORPHIDAE; SIPHONOPS; SIPHONOPS ANNULATUS;

EID: 46949094128     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0217     Document Type: Article

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