Wild animals connect us with nature: about awe, eco-pedagogy, and nature-connectedness by Theresa S. S. Schilhab, Gertrud L. Esbensen

“…Hence, the connection between experiences with local wild animals in nature (invertebrates such as snails and spiders, and vertebrates such as mammals and amphibians) and positive nature experiences remains unexplored. …”
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Flora i fauna rezerwatu przyrody Jezioro Kiełpińskie i sąsiednich starorzeczy w strefie podmiejskiej Warszawy by Jerzy Romanowski, Paweł Boniecki, Anita Kaliszewicz, Marek Kloss, Izabella Olejniczka

“…A large number of protected species of plants and vertebrates were recorded in the area, including amphibians, birds, and mammals that are of particular importance to the European community, such as the fire-bellied toad, little bittern, western marsh harrier, beaver, and otter. …”
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Rab7 Investigation Insights into the Existence of White Spot Syndrome Virus in Crustaceans: An In Silico Approach by Mehedi Mahmudul Hasan, M. Nazmul Hoque, Md Robiul Hasan, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Farha Matin Juliana

“…In this study, previously published Rab7 sequences from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) have been investigated from chordates, mollusks, annelids, cnidarians, amphibians, priapulids, brachiopods, and arthropods including decapods and other groups. …”
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Evolutionarily Developed Alternatively Spliced Exons Containing Translation Initiation Sites by Jun-ichi Takeda, Takaaki Okamoto, Akio Masuda

“…Furthermore, evolutionary analysis revealed that 5UC-ASEs have already appeared in cartilaginous fishes, have increased in amphibians, and are concentrated in the genes involved in transcription in mammals. …”
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Experimental approach on the contribution of wind and animal vectors in the dispersal and colonization of testate amoebae (Protista, Amoebozoa) in freshwater ecosystems by Matheus Henrique de Oliveira de Matos, Felipe Rafael de Oliveira, Fernando Miranda Lansac-Tôha, Melissa Progênio, Bianca Ramos de Meira, Loiani Oliveira Santana, Crislaine Cochak, Luiz Felipe Machado Velho

“…The study included four different approaches: (i) a control group exposed exclusively to wind, (ii) the addition of propagules dispersed by Odonata (aquatic insects), (iii) the addition of propagules dispersed by amphibians, and (iv) the combined addition of propagules of both animals. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation priorities in mitigating agricultural threats to China’s vertebrates by Can Yang, Geli Zhang, Xi Zhang, Yuzhe Li, Zhichao Li, Qinghao Wang, Jinwei Dong

“…Furthermore, croplands in Southwest China pose considerable threats to threatened mammals and amphibians, with 851 and 469 risk spots, respectively. …”
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Hologenomic data generation and analysis in wild vertebrates by Carlotta Pietroni, Nanna Gaun, Aoife Leonard, Jonas Lauritsen, Garazi Martin‐Bideguren, Iñaki Odriozola, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Antton Alberdi, Raphael Eisenhofer

“…We also report that birds and bats both have substantially lower microbial DNA fractions and a higher degree of sample‐to‐sample variability compared to amphibians, reptiles and non‐flying mammals. Based on these data, we provide suggestions to the field for robustly and efficiently generating hologenomic data from wild vertebrates.…”
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Tppp3 is a novel molecule for retinal ganglion cell identification and optic nerve regeneration by Mishal Rao, Ziming Luo, Chia-Chun Liu, Chi-Yu Chen, Shining Wang, Michael Nahmou, Bogdan Tanasa, Aman Virmani, Leah Byrne, Jeffrey L. Goldberg, José-Alain Sahel, Kun-Che Chang

“…While tubulin polymerization promoting protein family member 3 (Tppp3) is known to promote axon outgrowth in amphibians, its role in mammalian axon regeneration remains unknown. …”
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Identification of the Highly Polymorphic Prion Protein Gene (<i>PRNP</i>) in Frogs <i>(Rana dybowskii</i>) by Chang-Su Han, Sae-Young Won, Sang-Hun Park, Yong-Chan Kim

“…To the best of our knowledge, this study was the first to discover genetic polymorphisms in the <i>PRNP</i> gene in amphibians.…”
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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests by Mileidy Betancourth-Cundar, Juan Camilo Ríos-Orjuela, Andrew J. Crawford, David C. Cannatella, Rebecca D. Tarvin

“…The number of amphibian species described yearly shows no signs of slowing down, especially in tropical regions, implying that the biodiversity of amphibians remains woefully underestimated. …”
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Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset by Irene Goyenechea Mayer‐Goyenechea, Gustavo Montiel‐Canales, Juan Márquez, Claudia T. Hornung‐Leoni, Jesús M. Castillo‐Cerón, Norma L. Manríquez‐Morán

“…This study aims to analyze the distribution of plants, beetles, odonates, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals using an endemicity analysis to identify endemism areas and confirm the SMO's biogeographical units. …”
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Effect of Sand Mining on River System: A Case Study of River Rwabakazi Kabale Municipality.. by Kamagara, Denis

“…The results from the study showed the different species that have been affected by the mining activities in the river, invertebrates, such as insects, worms, etc, many species of birds, mammals such as otters, beavers and amphibians, such as frogs and toads. the study findings showed the relationship between the affected parts and intact part of River Rwabakazi in Kabale Municipality intact areas of the river can act as natural filters, the intact areas can provide a valuable baseline reference for restoration efforts, healthy river areas serve as a source of recolonization for the affected areas, intact areas can provide crucial habitat corridors for species that may be displaced from the affected areas. …”
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Ranakinestatin-PPF from the Skin Secretion of the Fukien Gold-Striped Pond Frog, Pelophylax plancyi fukienensis: A Prototype of a Novel Class of Bradykinin B2 Receptor Antagonist P... by Jie Ma, Yu Luo, Lilin Ge, Lei Wang, Mei Zhou, Yingqi Zhang, Jinao Duan, Tianbao Chen, Chris Shaw

“…The defensive skin secretions of many amphibians are a rich source of bradykinins and bradykinin-related peptides (BRPs). …”
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Pinglu Canal Construction and Its Impact on Wildlife Habitat Connectivity: A Multi-Species Network Analysis and Ecological Restoration Strategy by Yuan Cao, Kai Su, Yongfa You, Xuebing Jiang, Chuang Li, Junjie Chen

“…This study uses the MaxEnt model to identify habitats for 11 wildlife species within the study area, categorized into terrestrial mammals, amphibians and reptiles, forest birds, and water birds, thereby constructing a multi-species habitat connectivity network (MHCN). …”
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Switchable Adhesion of Hydrogels to Plant and Animal Tissues by Leah K. Borden, Morine G. Nader, Faraz A. Burni, Samantha M. Grasso, Irene Orueta‐Ortega, Mahima Srivastava, Paula Montero‐Atienza, Metecan Erdi, Sarah L. Wright, Rajabrata Sarkar, Anthony D. Sandler, Srinivasa R. Raghavan

“…This includes tissues from animals, including humans and other mammals; birds; fish; reptiles (e.g., lizards); amphibians (e.g., frogs), and invertebrates (e.g., shrimp, worms). …”
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What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’ by Laymon Ball, Sheila Rodríguez-Machado, Diego Paredes-Burneo, Samantha Rutledge, David A. Boyd, David Vander Pluym, Spenser Babb-Biernacki, Austin S. Chipps, Rafet Ç. Öztürk, Yahya Terzi, Prosanta Chakrabarty

“…We examined global records of accessible natural history voucher collections (with publicly available data and reliable locality data) for terrestrial and freshwater vascular plants, fungi, freshwater fishes, birds, mammals, and herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) and highlight areas of the world that would be considered undersampled and sometimes called ‘unexplored’ (i.e., have relatively low, or no evidence of, past sampling efforts) under typical Western-scientific descriptions. …”
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The pet trade of native species outside of their natural distributions within Australia is a biosecurity risk by Adam Toomes, Oliver C. Stringham, Stephanie Moncayo, Katherine G. W. Hill, Jacob Maher, Freyja Watters, Sebastian Chekunov, Pablo García‐Díaz, Lewis Mitchell, Joshua V. Ross, Phillip Cassey

“…We monitored trade from a popular Australian e‐commerce site used to trade native pet birds, reptiles, and amphibians (29 k advertisements over 1 year; from July 2019 to July 2020). …”
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Fine-scale satellite-based monitoring of temperature and vegetation cover in microclimates, distribution ranges, and landscape connectivity for Neurergus kaiseri (Kaiser’s mountain... by Peyman Karami, Sajad Tavakoli, Mina Esmaeili

“…Amphibians’ sensitivity to climate change makes them effective environmental indicators. …”
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Effects of public roads on wildlife-vehicle collisions in two protected areas, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Cameron T. Cormac, Cormac Price, Wendy Collinson, Dave J. Druce, Jarryd P. Streicher, Colleen T. Downs

“…A total of 1606 road mortalities were recorded, with small-bodied vertebrates (< 5 kg) comprising most of the identified species. Amphibians experienced the highest number of mortalities, 1066 individuals, while birds had the highest species diversity in the mortality record with 31 identified species. …”
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Nutritional and medicinal characteristics of Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) for applications in healthcare industry by artificial cultivation: A review by Dong He, Wenming Zhu, Wen Zeng, Jun Lin, Yang Ji, Yi Wang, Chong Zhang, Yuan Lu, Daoquan Zhao, Nan Su, Xin-Hui Xing

“…Chinese giant salamander (CGS), is one of the largest and oldest amphibians existing in the world and is also one of the valuable biological resources of China. …”
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