The northern red-legged frog Rana aurora aurora and the California red-legged frog Rana aurora draytonii are traditionally classified together in the same species group. Ten peptides with antimicrobial activity were isolated from norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions of R. aurora draytonii and purified to near homogeneity. The peptides were identified as belonging to the ranatuerin-2 family...

Pharmacists’ knowledge and perceptions regarding wound management at the community pharmacies in JordanManal Ayyash, Kamel Jaber, Maram Abu Moghli, Tareq L Mukattash, Rana Farha

The usage of the name Rana ocellata Linnaeus, 1758, is plagued by misidentifications and misinterpretations. After an exhaustive bibliographic review, we conclude that the Linnaeus 1758 name refers to Osteopilus brunneus (Gosse, 1851) from Jamaica, while the taxon currently known as Leptodactylus ocellatus corresponds to Rana latrans Steffen, 1815. Herein, we designate and provide descriptions ...

1. Tail muscles of larval Rana temporaria and to a lesser extent Xenopus laevis, at prometamorphosis, were investigated by light and electron microscopy. In the case of Rana their degeneration is described at metamorphic climax. 2. The non-degenerate tail muscles of both genera are generally similar in their ultrastructure and likewise similar to those striated muscles of other adult vertebrate...

Examination of the lectotype and a paralectotype of Rana okinavana Boettger, 1895 revealed that the species is not a brown frog of the subgenus Rana, occurring in the middle group of the Ryukyu Archipelago, but is identical with a frog of the subgenus Nidirana from the southern group of the Archipelago and Taiwan, now called R. psaltes Kuramoto, 1985. The type locality of R. okinavana given in ...

—Using starch gel electrophoresis, we examined proteins specified by 41 presumptive loci representing two breeding populations of Rana subaquavocalis, a recently described species of leopard frog from Arizona. Individual and population levels of heterozygosity were low. Mean number of alleles detected (1.2) and mean levels of individual heterozygosity were higher at the Barchas Ranch location (...