Parentage of Overlapping Offspring of an Arboreal-Breeding Frog with No Nest Defense: Implications for Nest Site Selection and Reproductive Strategy

Wan-Ping Tung; Yi-Huey Chen; Wei-Chun Cheng; Ming-Feng Chuang; Wan-Tso Hsu; Yeong-Choy Kam; Richard M. Lehtinen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123221

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Parentage of Overlapping Offspring of an Arboreal-Breeding Frog with No Nest Defense: Implications for Nest Site Selection and Reproductive Strategy

Wan-Ping Tung,

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
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Yi-Huey Chen,

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wei-Chun Cheng,

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
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Ming-Feng Chuang,

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
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Wan-Tso Hsu,

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
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Yeong-Choy Kam ,

* E-mail: biyckam@thu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
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Richard M. Lehtinen

Affiliation Department of Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691, United States of America
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Parentage of Overlapping Offspring of an Arboreal-Breeding Frog with No Nest Defense: Implications for Nest Site Selection and Reproductive Strategy

Wan-Ping Tung,
Yi-Huey Chen,
Wei-Chun Cheng,
Ming-Feng Chuang,
Wan-Tso Hsu,
Yeong-Choy Kam,
Richard M. Lehtinen

Published: April 2, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123221

About the Authors

Wan-Ping Tung

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan

Yi-Huey Chen

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Chun Cheng

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan

Ming-Feng Chuang

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan

Wan-Tso Hsu

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan

Yeong-Choy Kam

* E-mail: biyckam@thu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan

Richard M. Lehtinen

Affiliation Department of Biology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCK RML. Performed the experiments: WPT YHC WCC WTH. Analyzed the data: WPT YHC WCC YCK MFC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPT YHC WCC. Wrote the paper: WPT MFC YCK RML.

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