Denise Cavalcante Hissa, Walderly Melgaço Bezerra, Cléverson Diniz Teixeira De Freitas, Márcio Viana Ramos, José Luiz De Souza Lopes, Leila Maria Beltramini, Igor Joventino Roberto, Paulo Cascon, Vânia Maria Maciel Melo
Some amphibian species have developed a breeding strategy in which they deposit their eggs in stable foam nests to protect their eggs and larvae. The frog foam nests are rich in proteins (ranaspumin), especially surfactant proteins, involved in the production of the foam nest. Despite the ecological importance of the foam nests for evolution and species conservation, the biochemical composition, the long-term stability and even the origin of the components are still not completely understood. Recently we showed that Lv-RSN-1, a 23...
August 2016: Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological Genetics and Physiology