2017
Raaymakers, C., Verbrugghe, E., Hernot, S., Hellebuyck, T., Betti, C., Peleman, C., Claeys, M., Bert, W., Caveliers, V., Ballet, S., Martel, A., Pasmans, F. & K. Roelants (2017). - Antimicrobial peptides in frog toxins constitute a molecular toxin delivery system against predators.
Nature Communications 8, 1495.
Kok, P.J.R., Ratz, S., MacCulloh, R.D., Lathrop, A., Dezfoulian, R. Aubret, F., & D.B. Means (2017). - Historical biogeography of the palaeoendemic toad genus Oreophrynella (Amphibia: Bufonidae) sheds a new light on the origin of the Pantepui endemic terrestrial biota.
Journal of Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13093
Treer, D., Maex, M., Van Bocxlaer, I., Proost, P., & F. Bossuyt (2017). - Divergence of species-specific protein sex pheromone blends in two related, non-hybridising newts (Salamandridae).
Molecular Ecology 2017: 1-12.
Stegen, G., Pasmans, F., Schmidt, B.R., Rouffaer, L.O., Van Praet, S., Schaub, M., Canessa, S., Laudelout, A., Kinet, T., Adriaensen, C., Haesebrouck, F., Bert, W., Bossuyt, F,. & A. Martel (2017). - Drivers of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans mediated salamander extirpation.
Nature 544: 353–356.
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2016
Kok, P.J.R., Russo, V.G., Ratz, S., Means, D.B., MacCulloh, R.D., Lathrop, A., Aubret, F., & F. Bossuyt, 2016. - Evolution in the South American ‘Lost World’: insights from multilocus phylogeography of stefanias (Anura, Hemiphractidae, Stefania). Journal of Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.1286.
Matthijs, S., Hernalsteens, J.P. & K. Roelants, 2016. - An orthologue of the host-defense protein psoriasin (S100A7) is expressed in frog skin.
Developmental & Comparative Immunology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2016.08.012
Van Bocxlaer, I., Maex, M., Treer, D., Janssenswillen, S., Janssens, R., Vandebergh, W., Proost, P. & F. Bossuyt, 2016. - Beyond sodefrin: evidence for a multi-component pheromone system in the model newt Cynops pyrrhogaster (Salamandridae).
Scientific Reports, 6: 21880. - pdf
Biju, S.D., Senevirathne, G., Garg, S., Mahony, S., Kamei, R.G., Thomas, A., Shouche, Y., Raxworthy, C.J., Meegaskumbura, M. & I. Van Bocxlaer, 2016 - Frankixalus, a new rhacophorid genus of tree hole breeding frogs with oophagous tadpoles. PLoS ONE 11 (1): e0145727. - pdf
Maex, M., Van Bocxlaer, I., Mortier, A., Proost, P. & F. Bossuyt, 2016 - Courtship pheromone use in a model urodele, the Mexican Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).
Scientific Reports, 6: 20184. - pdf
Janssenswillen, S. & F. Bossuyt, 2016 - Male courtship pheromones induce cloacal gaping in female newts (Salamandridae).
PLoS ONE, 11 (1): e0144985. - pdf
2015
Janssenswillen, I., Willaert, B. Treer, D., Vandebergh, W., Bossuyt, F. & I. Van Bocxlaer, 2015 - High pheromone diversity in the male cheek gland of the red-spotted newt Nothophthalmus viridescens (Salamandridae).
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15: 54.
Stynoski, J.L., Schulte, L.M. & B. Rojas, 2015 - Poison frogs.
Current Biology, 25: R1026–R1028.
Fry, B., Jackson, T., Roelants, K., Sunagar, K., Takacs, Z., Reeks, T., & Kwok, H. F. (2015). Exendin peptides. In B. G. Fry (Ed.), Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins. Evolution, Pathophysiology and Biodiscovery.
Oxford University Press, pp. 247-254.
Aubret, F., Blanvillain, G. & P.J.R. Kok, 2015 - Myth busting? Effects of embryo positioning and egg turning on hatching success in the water snake Natrix maura.
Scientific Reports, 5: 13385.
Van Bocxlaer, I., Treer, D., Maex, M., Vandebergh, W., Janssenswillen, S., Stegen, G., Kok, P., Willaert, B., Matthijs, S., Martens, E., Mortier, A., de Greve, H., Proost, P. & F. Bossuyt, 2015 - Side-by-side secretion of late Palaeozoic diverged courtship pheromones in an aquatic salamander.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B London, 282: 20142960.
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Janssenswillen, S., Vandebergh, W., Treer, D., Willaert, B., Maex, M., Van Bocxlaer, I. & F. Bossuyt, 2015 - Origin and diversification of a salamander sex pheromone system.
Molecular Biology & Evolution 32 (2): 472-480.
Leite, Y.L.R., Kok, P.J.R. & M. Weksler, 2015 - Evolutionary affinities of the ‘Lost World’ mouse suggest a late Pliocene connection between the Guiana and Brazilian shields.
Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/jbi.12461.
2014
Gehara M., Crawford A.J., Orrico V.G., Rodríguez A., Lötters S., Fouquet A., Barrientos L.S., Brusquetti F., De la Riva I., Ernst R., Urrutia G.G., Glaw F., Guayasamin J.M., Hölting M., Jansen M., Kok P.J.R., Kwet A., Lingnau R., Lyra M., Moravec J., Pombal J.P. Jr, Rojas-Runjaic F.J., Schulze A., Señaris J.C., Solé M., Rodrigues M.T., Twomey E., Haddad C.F., Vences M., & J. Köhler, 2014 - High levels of diversity uncovered in a widespread nominal taxon: continental phylogeography of the neotropical tree frog Dendrosophus minutus.
PLoS ONE 10 (9): e103958.
Martel, A., Blooi, M., Adriaensen, C., Van Rooij, P., Beukema, W., Fisher, M.C., Farrer, R.A., Schmidt, B.R., Tobler, U., Goka, K., Lips, K.R., Muletz, C., Zamudio, K., Bosch, J., Lötters, S., Wombwell, E., Garner, T.W.J., Cunningham, A.A., Spitzen-van der Sluijs, A., Salvidio, S., Ducatelle, R., Nishikawa, K., Nguyen, T.T., Kolby, J.E., Van Bocxlaer, I., Bossuyt, F. & F. Pasmans, 2014 - Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders.
Science 346: 630 - 631.
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Matthijs, S., Ye, L., Stijlemans, B., Cornelis, P., Bossuyt, F. & K. Roelants, 2014 - Low Structural Variation in the Host-Defense Peptide Repertoire of the Dwarf Clawed Frog Hymenochirus boettgeri (Pipidae).
PLoS ONE 9 (1) : e86339.
2013
Kok P.J.R., 2013. - Two new charismatic Pristimantis species (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the tepuis of “The Lost World” (Pantepui region, South America).
European Journal of Taxonomy 60: 1-24.
Fry, B., Undheim, E., Ali, S., Jackson, T., Debono, J., Scheib, H., Ruder, T., Morgenstern, D., Cadwallader, L. Whitehead, D., Nabuurs, R., van der Weerd, L., Vidal, N., Roelants, K., Hendrikx, I., Gonzalez, S.P., Koludarov, I., Jones, A., King, G.F., Antunes, A. & K. Sunagar, 2013 - Squeezers and leaf-cutters: differential diversification and degeneration of the venom system in toxicoferan reptiles.
Molecular and Cellular Proteomics 12: 1881-1899.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.60
Martel, A., Spitzen-van der Sluijs, A., Blooi, M., Bert, W., Ducatelle, R., Fisher, M.C., Woeltjes, A., Bosman, W., Chiers, K., Bossuyt, F. & F. Pasmans, 2013 - Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov. causes lethal chytridiomycosis in amphibians.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110 (38): 15325-15329. - pdf
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Willaert, B., Bossuyt, F., Janssenswillen, S., Adriaens, D., Baggerman, G., Matthijs, S., Pauwels, E., Proost, P., Raepsaet, A., Schoofs, L., Stegen, G., Treer, D., Van Hoorebeke, L., Vandebergh, W. & I. Van Bocxlaer, 2013 - Frog nuptial pads secrete mating season-specific proteins related to salamander pheromones.
The Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 4139-4143 - pdf
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Roelants, K., Fry, B.G., Ye, L., Stijlemans, B., Brys, L., Kok, P., Clynen, E., Schoofs, L., Cornelis, P. & F. Bossuyt, 2013 - Origin and functional diversification of an amphibian defense peptide arsenal.
PLoS Genetics 9(8): e1003662. - pdf
Vandebergh, W., Maex, M., Bossuyt, F. & I. Van Bocxlaer, 2013 - Recurrent functional divergence of early tetrapod keratins in amphibian toe pads and mammalian hair.
Biology Letters 9: 20130051.
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Treer, D., Van Bocxlaer, I., Matthijs, S., Du Four, D., Janssenswillen, S., Willaert, B. & F. Bossuyt, 2013 - Love Is Blind: Indiscriminate Female Mating Responses to Male Courtship Pheromones in Newts (Salamandridae).
PLoS ONE, 8(2): e56538.
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2012
Kok, P. J. R. , MacCulloch, R. D., Means, D. B., Roelants, K., Van Bocxlaer, I. & F. Bossuyt, 2012 - Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates.
Current Biology, 22 (15): R589-590. - pdf
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Van Bocxlaer, I., Biju, S.D., Willaert, B., Giri, V.B., Shouche, Y.S. & F. Bossuyt, 2012 - Mountain-associated clade endemism in an ancient frog family (Nyctibatrachidae) on the Indian subcontinent.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 62 (3): 839-847.
Kamei, R.G., San Mauro, D., Gower, D.J., Van Bocxlaer, I., Sherratt, E., Thomas, A., Babu, S., Bossuyt, F., Wilkinson M. & S.D. Biju, 2012. Discovery of a new family of amphibians from Northeast India with ancient links to Africa.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B London, 279 (1737): 2396-2401.
Vandebergh, W. & F. Bossuyt, 2012 - Radiation and Functional Diversification of Alpha Keratins during Early Vertebrate Evolution.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29 (3): 995-1004.
2011
Biju, S.D., Van Bocxlaer, I., Mahony, S., Dinesh, K.P., Radhakrishnan, C., Zachariah, A., Giri, V. & F. Bossuyt, 2011 - A taxonomic review of the Night Frog genus Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882 in the Western Ghats, India (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae) with description of twelve new species.
Zootaxa 3029: 1–96.
Roelants, K., Haas, A., & F. Bossuyt, 2011 - Anuran radiations and the evolution of tadpole morphospace.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 108 (21): 8527-8916.
Kok, P.J.R., Means, D.B. & F. Bossuyt, 2011 - A new highland species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1871 (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Pantepui region, northern South America.
Zootaxa 2934: 1–19.
2010
Mannaert, A., Amemiya, C.T. & F. Bossuyt, 2010 - Comparative analyses of vertebrate posterior HoxD clusters reveal atypical cluster architecture in the caecilian Typhlonectes natans.
BMC Genomics 2010 (11), 658. --> BMC Genomics
Kok, P.J.R., Macculloch, R.D., Lathrop, A., Willaert, B. & F. Bossuyt, 2010 - A new species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana.
Zootaxa 2660: 18–32.
Biju, S.D., Shouche, Y., Dubois, A., Dutta, S.K., & F. Bossuyt, 2010 - A ground-dwelling rhacophorid frog from the highest mountain peak of the Western Ghats of India.
Current Science 98 (8), 1119-1125. - pdf
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.
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Roelants, K., Fry, B.G., Norman, J.A., Clynen, E., Schoofs, L. & F. Bossuyt, 2010 - Identical Skin Toxins by Convergent Molecular Adaptation in Frogs.
Current Biology 20: 125-130. - --> Current Biology
2009
Biju, S.D., Van Bocxlaer, I., Giri, V.B., Loader, S.P. & F. Bossuyt, 2009 - Two new endemic genera and a new species of toad (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Western Ghats of India.
BMC Research Notes 2009, 2: 241. - Download
Van Bocxlaer, I., Biju, S.D., Loader, S.P., & F. Bossuyt, 2009 - Toad radiation reveals into-India dispersal as a source of endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot.
BMC Evol Biol 2009, 9: 131. - Download
Fry, B., Wroe, S. Teeuwisse, W., Van Osch, M., Moreno, K., ..., Roelants, K., ... & J.A. Norman, 2009. A central role for venom in predation by Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) and the extinct giant Varanus (Megalania) priscus.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (22): 8969–8974.
Biju, S.D. and F. Bossuyt. 2009. Systematics and phylogeny of Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Anura, Rhacophoridae) in the Western Ghats of India, with descriptions of 12 new species.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 374-444.
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.
2008
Biju, S.D., Roelants, K. and F. Bossuyt, 2008 - Phylogenetic position of the montane treefrog Polypedates variabilis Jerdon, 1853 (Anura: Rhacophoridae), and description of a related species.
Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 8: 267-276. pdf
Biju, S. D., Rachunliu G. Kamei, Bhatta, G., Varad Giri, Cox, N., Das, I. and F. Bossuyt, 2008 - Diversity and Conservation Status of the Western Ghats Amphibians. In: Stuart et al. eds.
Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona: pp 80-82.
2007
Biju, S.D., Van Bocxlaer, I., Giri, V.B., Roelants, K., Nagaraju, J. & F. Bossuyt, 2007 - A new nighfrog, Nyctibatrachus minimus sp. nov. (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae): The smallest frog from India.
Current Science 93 (6): 854-858. pdf
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
2006
Van Bocxlaer, I., Roelants, K., Biju, S.D., Nagaraju, J. & F. Bossuyt, 2006 - Late Cretaceous Vicariance in Gondwanan Amphibians.
PLoS ONE 1 (1): e74. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000074
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
Biju, S.D. & F. Bossuyt, 2006 - Two new species of Philautus (Anura: Ranidae, Rhacophorinae) from the Western Ghats, India.
Amphibia-Reptilia 27: 1-9. pdf
Mannaert, A., Roelants, K., Bossuyt, F., & L. Leyns, 2006 - A PCR survey for posterior hox genes in amphibians.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 38: 449-458. pdf
2005
Biju, S.D. & F. Bossuyt, 2005 - New species of Philautus (Anura: Ranidae, Rhacophorinae) from Ponmudi Hill in the Western Ghats of India.
Journal of Herpetology 39 (3): 349-353. 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, 2005 - Biodiversity in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats.
Science 308: 199. pdf
Roelants, K. & F. Bossuyt, 2005 - Archaeobatrachian paraphyly and pangaean diversification of crown-group frogs.
Systematic Biology 54 (1): 111-126. pdf
Biju, S.D. & F. Bossuyt, 2005 - Two new Philautus (Anura: Ranidae: Rhacophorinae) from Ponmudi Hill in the Western Ghats of India.
Copeia 2005 (1): 29 - 37. pdf
Biju, S.D. & F. Bossuyt, 2005 - A new species of frog (Ranidae, Rhacophorinae, Philautus) from the rainforest canopy in the Western Ghats, India.
Current Science 88 (1): 175 - 178. pdf
2004
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
Roelants, K., Jiang, J. & F. Bossuyt, 2004 - Endemic ranid (Amphibia: Anura) genera in southern mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent represent ancient frog lineages: evidence from molecular data.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 31: 730-740. pdf
2003
Biju, S.D. & F. Bossuyt, 2003 - New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles.
Nature 425: 711 - 714. pdf
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Biju, S.D., 2003 - Reproductive mode in the shrub frog Philautus glandulosus (Jerdon, 1853) (Anura: Rhacophoridae).
Current Science 84 (3): 283 - 284. pdf
2002
Meegaskumbura, M., Bossuyt, F., Pethiyagoda, R., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Bahir, M., Milinkovitch, M.C. & C.J. Schneider, 2002 - Sri Lanka: an amphibian hotspot.
Science 298: 379. pdf
Bossuyt, F., 2002 - A New Species of Philautus (Anura: Ranidae) from the Western Ghats of India.
Journal of Herpetology 36 (4): 656-661. pdf
2001
Bossuyt, F. & M.C. Milinkovitch, 2001 - Amphibians as Indicators of Early Tertiary 'Out of India' Dispersal of Vertebrates.
Science 292: 93-95. pdf
Bossuyt, F. & A. Dubois, 2001- A review of the genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae, Rhacophorinae).
Zeylanica 6 (1): 1 - 112. pdf
Bossuyt, F., Roelants, K., Spithoven, L. & M.- H. Daro, 2001 - Philautus bombayensis: reproduction.
Herpetological Review 32 (1): 34-35. pdf
2000
Bossuyt F. & M.C. Milinkovitch, 2000 - Convergent adaptive radiations in Madagascan and Asian ranid frogs reveal covariation between larval and adult traits.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 97: 6585 - 6590. pdf
