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List of works by Rayna C. Bell

200 million years of anuran body size evolution in relation to geography, ecology, and life history

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

A New Species ofHyperolius(Amphibia: Hyperoliidae) from Príncipe Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe

scientific article published in December 2016

Breeding biology and the evolution of dynamic sexual dichromatism in frogs.

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Comparative multi-locus phylogeography confirms multiple vicariance events in co-distributed rainforest frogs

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

Connectivity and gene flow among Eastern Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) populations in highly modified anthropogenic landscapes

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Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals expanded threats to amphibian conservation

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Diversity and Evolution of Frog Visual Opsins: Spectral Tuning and Adaptation to Distinct Light Environments

scientific article published in April 2024

Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frogs and salamanders

scientific article published in 2022

Effectiveness of Erythrina gall wasp biocontrol and implications for the recovery of threatened Wiliwili trees (Fabaceae: Erythrina sandwicensis)1

scientific article published in April 2013

Endemism, invasion, and overseas dispersal: the phylogeographic history of the Lesser Antillean frog, Eleutherodactylus johnstonei

scientific article published in 2022

Evolutionary history of Scinax treefrogs on land-bridge islands in south-eastern Brazil

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Eye size and investment in frogs and toads correlate with adult habitat, activity pattern and breeding ecology

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Giant Tree Frog diversification in West and Central Africa: Isolation by physical barriers, climate, and reproductive traits

scientific article published in 2021

High prevalence of the amphibian chytrid pathogen in Gabon

scientific article published on 6 January 2011

Idiosyncratic responses to climate-driven forest fragmentation and marine incursions in reed frogs from Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea Islands

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Independent evolutionary transitions to pueriparity across multiple timescales in the viviparous genus Salamandra

scholarly article published in 2022

Light shines through the spindrift--phylogeny of African torrent frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Petropedetidae)

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Multiple records of the introduced parthenogenetic Smooth-scaled Tegulet, <i>Gymnophthalmus underwoodi</i> Grant 1958, in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 8 March 2024

Ocular lens morphology is influenced by ecology and metamorphosis in frogs and toads

scientific article published in 2022

Overseas dispersal ofHyperoliusreed frogs from Central Africa to the oceanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe

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Patterns of persistence and isolation indicate resilience to climate change in montane rainforest lizards

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Phenotypes in phylogeography: Species' traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification

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Phenotypic and genetic divergence in reed frogs across a mosaic hybrid zone on São Tomé Island

scientific article published in 2019

Polyandry, Predation, and the Evolution of Frog Reproductive Modes.

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Prevalence and genetic diversity of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Central African island and continental amphibian communities.

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Reed frog diversification in the Gulf of Guinea: overseas dispersal, the progression rule, and in situ speciation

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Sexual Dichromatism Drives Diversification within a Major Radiation of African Amphibians

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Sexual dichromatism in frogs: natural selection, sexual selection and unexpected diversity

scientific article published on September 19, 2012

Sky, sea, and forest islands: Diversification in the African leaf-folding frog Afrixalus paradorsalis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) of the Lower Guineo-Congolian rain forest

scholarly article by Kristin L. Charles et al published 25 June 2018 in Journal of Biogeography

Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian

scientific article published in 2021

The Type Locality Project: collecting genomic-quality, topotypic vouchers and training the next generation of specimen-based researchers

scientific article published in June 2020

Vision in dim light and the evolution of color pattern in a crepuscular/nocturnal frog

scientific article published on 29 March 2022