Abstracts of congresses, publications

Abt, G. and H.-U. Reyer. 1993. Mate choice and fitness in a hybrid frog: Rana esculenta females prefer Rana lessonae males over their own. Behav Ecol Sociobiol (1993) 32:221-228. Abstract]

Beerli, P. 1994. Genetic isolation and calibration of an average protein clock in western Palearctic water frogs of the Aegean region. Dissertation Universität Zürich 1994. [Summary]

Beerli, P., H. Hotz, E., and G.-D. Guex. 1994. Differerential gene flow pattern in two Mediterrranean refugial areas of water frogs. II. International symposium of ecology and genetics of European water frogs. September 1994. Wroclaw, Poland. [Abstract]

Beerli, P., H. Hotz, E., and G.-D. Guex. 1994. Differerential gene flow pattern in two Mediterrranean refugial areas of water frogs. II. International symposium of ecology and genetics of European water frogs. September 1994. Wroclaw, Poland. [Abstract]

Beerli, P., H. Hotz, E., and T. Uzzell. 1996. Geologically dated sea barriers calibrate a protein clock for Aegean water frogs. Evolution 50(4): 1676-1687. [Abstract]

Buckley, D., B. Arano, P. Herrero, and G. Llorente. 1996. Population structure of Moroccan water frogs: genetic cohesion despite a fragmented distribution. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 34:173-179. [Abstract]

Fioramonti, E., R. D. Semlitsch, K. Fent. 1995?. Der Einfluss von pH und Triphenylzinn (TPT) auf das Wachstum und die Entwicklung von Grvnfrpschen (Rana lessonae, Rana esculenta).[Abstract]

Guerrini, F., S. Bucci, M. Ragghianti, G. Mancino, H. Hotz, T. Uzzell, and L. Berger. 1997. Genomes of two water frog species resist germ line exclusion in interspecies hybrids. Journal of Experimental Zoology 279(2): 163-176.[Abstract]

Guex, G.-D., P. Beerli, A. D. Barbour, and H. Hotz. A dynamic model to describe equilibrium conditions in mixed populations of a hemiclonal hybrid and its sexual host in European water frogs. In: Catzeflis, F. M. and M. Gautier (ed.). Evolution 93. Fourth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Montpellier, August 22-28, 1993: 158.[Abstract]

Gutmann S., H. Hotz, E., Semlitsch, R. D., G.-D. Guex, P. Beerli, L. Berger, and T. Uzzell. 1994. Spontaneous heterosis in larval life-history traits of hemiclonal water frog hybrids. II. International symposium of ecology and genetics of European water frogs. September 1994. Wroclaw, Poland. [Abstract]

Horat, P. and R. D. Semlitsch 1994. Effects of predation risk and hunger on the behaviour of two species of tadpoles. Behav Ecol Sociobiol (1994) 34:393-401. [Abstract]

Hotz H., P. Beerli, G.-D. Guex, R. D. Semlitsch, and T. Uzzell. 1994. Clonal diversity and hybrid frequency are not correlated in water frogs: is the Frozen Niche Variation model wrong? II. International symposium of ecology and genetics of European water frogs. September 1994. Wroclaw, Poland. [Abstract]

Hotz, H. and P. Beerli. Sources of clonal diversity in a system of hemiclonal Rana hybrids. In: Halliday, T., J. Baker and L. Hosie (ed.): First World Congress of Herpetology. Abstracts. University of Kent, Canterbury: [149].

Hotz, H., L. Berger, T. Uzzell, H.G. Tunner, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. Sex determination, sex linkage, and two kinds of unisexuality among XX and XY genotypes in western Palearctic water frogs. In: Catzeflis, F. M. and M. Gautier (ed.). Evolution 93. Fourth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Montpellier, August 22-28, 1993: 181. [Abstract]

Hotz, H., L. Berger, T. Uzzell, H.G. Tunner, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. Sex determination, sex linkage, and two kinds of unisexuality among XX and XY genotypes in western Palearctic water frogs. In: Catzeflis, F. M. and M. Gautier (ed.). Evolution 93. Fourth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Montpellier, August 22-28, 1993: 181. [Abstract]

Hotz, H., R. D. Semlitsch, S. Schmiedehausen, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. Differential performance of LDH-B genotypes in water frogs. In: Catzeflis, F. M. and M. Gautier (ed.). Evolution 93. Fourth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Montpellier, August 22-28, 1993: 182. [Abstract]

Hotz, H., T. Uzzell, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. 1996. Are hybrid clonals species? A case for enlightened anarchy. Amphibia-Reptilia 17: 315-320. [Abstract]

Hotz, H. Uzzell, T. Berger, L. 1997. Linkage groups of protein-coding genes in western Palearctic water frogs reveal extensive evolutionary conservation. Genetics 147(1):255-270 [Abstract]

Kovács, T. and J. Török 1995. Dietary responses by Edible Frog (Rana esculenta complex) to wetland habitat change in Hungary. Proceedings of Workshop 2 of the International Conference on Wetlands and Development, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-13 October 1995, 79-86. [Abstract]

Pagano, A., P. Joly, and H. Hotz. 1997. Taxon composition and genetic variation of water frogs in the Mid-Rhône floodplain [Structure taxonomique et génétique des grenouilles vertes de la vallée alluviale du Rhône moyen]. [Abstract]

Plötner, J. (in press): Genetic diversity in mitochondrial 12S rDNA of western palearctic water frogs (Anura, Ranidae) and implications for systematics. J. Zoo. Syst. Evol. Research. [Abstract]

Schmeller, D., A. Crivelli, and M. Veith. 1997. Genetic and demographic structure of populations of hybridogenetic water frogs (Rana perezi, R. ridibunda) in the Rhône-delta (Camargue, France). 3rd World Congress of Herpetology, Prague. [Abstract]

Schmidt, B. R. 1996. Sexual and asexual reproduction in vertebrates. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 253-254. [Abstract]

Schmidt, B. R., Hotz, H., Anholt, B. R., Guex, G.-D. and Semlitsch, R. D. (in press). Factors contributing to the maintenance of the genetic polymorphism at the locus LDH-B in the pool frog, Rana lessonae. Canadian Journal of Zoology. [ Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D.. 1993. Asymmetric Competition In Mixed Populations Of Tadpoles Of The Hybridogenetic Rana Esculenta Complex. Evoution, 47(2), 1993, pp. 510-519 [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D.. 1993. Effects of different predators on the survival and development of tadpoles from the hybridogenetic Rana esculenta complex. - Oikos 67: 4-46. [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D., H. Hotz, G.-D. Guex. 1997. Competition among tadpoles of coexisting hemiclones of hybridogenetic Rana esculenta: support for the Frozen Niche Variation model. Evolution 51(4): 1249-1261 [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D., H. Hotz, G.-D. Guex, and P. Beerli. 1994. Balancing interclonal selection and the maintenance of more than one hemiclone in populations of the hybrid frog Rana esculenta. II International symposium of ecology and genetics of European water frogs. September 1994. Wroclaw, Poland. [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D. and H.-U. Reyer 1992. Performance Of Tadpoles From The Hybridogenetic Rana Esculenta Complex: Interactions With Pond Drying And Interspecific Competition. Evolution, 46(3), 1992, pp. 665-676 [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D. and H.-U. Reyer 1992.Modification of anti-predator behaviour in tadpoles by environmental conditioning. Journal of Animal Ecology 1992 61, 353-360. [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D. and S. Schmiedehausen. 1994. Parental Contributions to Variation in Hatchling Size and Its Relationship to Growth and Metamorphosis in Tadpoles of Rana lessonae and Rana esculenta Copeia, 1994(2), pp. 406-412 [Abstract]

Semlitsch, R. D., S. Schmiedehausen, H. Hotz, P. Beerli, and G.-D. Guex. Differences in larval performance among coexisting hemiclones of hybridogenetic water frogs are of similar magnitude as those between hybrids and parental species. In: Catzeflis, F. M. and M. Gautier (ed.). Evolution 93. Fourth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Montpellier, August 22-28, 1993: 409. [Abstract]

Stauffer, H.-P. & R. D. Semlitsch. 1993. Effects of visual, chemical and tactile cues of fish on the behavioural responses of tadpoles Anim. Behav., 1993, 46, 355-364 [Abstract]

Uzzell, T., H. Hotz, G.-D. Guex, and P. Beerli. 1994. Albumin cDNA sequences of western Palearctic water frogs: evolutionary changes in frog albumins. II. International symposium of ecology and genetics of European water frogs. September 1994. Wroclaw, Poland. [Abstract]