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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Aspects of reproduction in the leaf-foldind frog afrixalus delicatus

Backwell, Patricia Ruth Yvonne 06 June 2016 (has links)
Thesis submitted to the Faculty ofScience, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Gf'Doctol' ofPhilosophy, (! JOHANNESBURG January 1991 / This work examines aspects of sexual reproduction in the previously littlestudied Leaf-foldillg Frog, A£rixalus dellcatus, The taxonomic status of this species was determined using the Mate Recognition System to deUmJt the species boundary. Male social behaviour was investigated with particular reference to. the structure and functional partitioning of the twopart advertisement call; the maintenance of intermale spacing and the effects of chorus size on the sp'atial separation of males; chorus organisation; call site selecticn and fidelity to. call sites. The climatic factors influencing male behaviour were also examined. The mating success of calling and satellite males was determined and the possible causes of the variation in mating success were examined. Female behavioul' was also extensively studied, Females were found to produce a .$xnall numbel' of large eggs tI1at are protected in leaf nests. Oviposition site rf¥tq~em;(;;lntswere detertnined, and the concentration of nests examined. "~~l~a1ti;ll>ll ·Sl'P!OO'$$$ Wlll;S fou'DiGi'tobe lligh. Some females were found to be llol~atl:d~(;)llS, ma:~r:tfgwit~ up to three nl,ales. The behaviour of females in the 'cl.mQ~t:tsW~ observed andfemales were round to generally mate with one of the nearw ma1$s irrespective of morphology or behaviour. The potential and actual a,,(lcutacyormata loc.alisation was determined. This study of a species' mating system and its flexibility in relation to eeclogleal, ph1~o.1~~td and social pressures' allowed for a more thorough understanding oi anlllrtUl.rep:tod~etive behavlour and its evtiiution.
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The female anuran reproductive system in relation to reproductive mode / by Philippa Horton

Horton, Philippa January 1984 (has links)
Offprints of the author's articles inserted / Bibliography: leaves 130-141 / viii, 141, 25 leaves, [2] leaves of plates : ill ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Zoology, 1986

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