GALLERY

Selected Publications

Roelants, K., Haas, A., & F. Bossuyt, 2011 - Anuran radiations and the evolution of tadpole morphospace.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 108 (21): 8527-8916.

Van Bocxlaer, I., Loader, S.P., Roelants, K., Biju, S.D., Menegon, M. & F. Bossuyt, 2010. Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads.

Science 327, 679-682.

Bossuyt, F. & K. Roelants, 2009 - Anura. In S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar, Eds. Timetree of life, Oxford University Press, New York, pp 357-364.

Roelants, K., Gower, D.J., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S.P., Biju, S.D., Guillaume, K., Moriau, L. & F. Bossuyt, 2007 - Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 104 (3): 887-892. pdf

Bossuyt, F., Brown, R.M., Hillis, D.H., Cannatella, D.C. & M.C. Milinkovitch, 2006 - Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late Cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family Ranidae.

Systematic Biology 55 (4): 579-594. pdf

Bossuyt, F., Meegaskumbura, M., Beenaerts, N., Gower, D.J., Pethiyagoda, R., Roelants, K., Mannaert, A., Wilkinson, M., Bahir, M.M., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Ng, P.K.L., Schneider, C.J., Oomen, O.V. & M.C. Milinkovitch, 2004 - Local endemism within the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot.

Science 306: 479-481. pdf

Biju, S.D. & F. Bossuyt, 2003 - New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles.

Nature 425: 711 - 714. pdf

Franky is the head of Amphibian Evolution Lab. His research is focussing on several aspects of amphibian evolution. He is interested in the use of molecular phylogenies to elucidate evolutionary patterns, and the processes that produce them, in amphibians. But science becomes really fun with an integrative approach, in which tempo and mode of evolution are linked to biogeography, speciation, morphological diversification, biochemical communication, etc ...

Franky Bossuyt

Head of the lab

Research

Amphibian evolution