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Provedor de dados: | 76
País: | Brazil
Título: | Reproductive biology of Leptodactylus fuscus (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in the subtropical climate, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Autores: | Maragno,Franciéle P.; Cechin,Sonia Z.
Data: | 2009-09-01
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Amphibians; Reproduction; Subtropical climate.
Resumo: | The aim of this study was to characterize, for the central region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the reproductive biology of Leptodactylus fuscus (Schneider, 1799), based on the analysis of gonadal development of males and females, reproductive effort, size-fecundity relationships, and occurrence of sexual dimorphism in body size. Mature individuals were found from October 1996 to February 1997 and from October 1997 to December 1997. The highest input of juveniles in the population was recorded in March 1997. There was a positive and significant correlation between the number of mature individuals and the mean monthly temperature. The population did not present sexual dimorphism in size. Males presented significant correlation only between snout-vent length and testes length. All females had oocytes at four different maturation stages and there were no significant correlations regarding size-fecundity variables. The correlation between ovarian size factor and females snout-vent length was not significant either. The main difference between this population and those that inhabit tropical climate was that temperature was responsible for stimulating the reproduction activity, instead of rainfall.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0073-47212009000300002
Editor: | Museu de Ciências Naturais
Relação: | 10.1590/S0073-47212009000300002
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Iheringia. Série Zoologia  v.99 n.3 2009
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess