TY - JOUR

T1 - A symbiosis of amphibian embryos and larvae with unicellular green algae

AU - Desnitskiy, A.G.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Literary data on facultative symbiotic relationships between amphibian embryos and unicellular green algae have been considered. Such symbioses may be important for the dispersal and survival of some tailed and anuran amphibians, the embryonic and larval development of which occurs in water. However, many evolutionary trends of amphibians were connected with the transitions to early ontogeny beyond water. Therefore, the symbioses with algae did not play a significant phylogenetic role for this class of animals.

AB - Literary data on facultative symbiotic relationships between amphibian embryos and unicellular green algae have been considered. Such symbioses may be important for the dispersal and survival of some tailed and anuran amphibians, the embryonic and larval development of which occurs in water. However, many evolutionary trends of amphibians were connected with the transitions to early ontogeny beyond water. Therefore, the symbioses with algae did not play a significant phylogenetic role for this class of animals.

KW - Ambystomatidae

KW - amphibians

KW - eggs

KW - embryos

KW - Oophila amblystomatis

KW - Ranidae

KW - symbiotic algae

M3 - Article

VL - 24

SP - 223

EP - 227

JO - Russian Journal of Herpetology

JF - Russian Journal of Herpetology

SN - 1026-2296

IS - 3

ER -