first study to come out of the collaboration, the team examined museum specimens representing all 55 frog families to test hypotheses about the evolution of frog eye size and its relationship to different aspects of their lifestyles.
The results show that, overall, frogs are investing a lot of energy in maintaining their eyes and that vision is likely important to their survival and reproductive success.Rayna Bell, assistant curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences and one of the new paper’s authors, says that although frogs were an early model for studying vision at the turn of the 20th century, the research was limited to a small number of easily accessible species.“It was not reflective of the enormous diversity of.
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