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ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 343-350Publisher
ZOOLOGICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.19.343
Keywords
Rana japonica; breeding population; skeletochronology; age structure; age at first reproduction
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A breeding population of Rana japonica was studied at a marsh on the campus of Hiroshima University in Higashi-Hiroshima during the five years 1995-1999. The mark-recapture study showed that the size of the breeding population varied from year to year, and increased more than twofold in 1999 in comparison with the preceding years. The sex ratio of the breeding population (male/female) was from nearly 1.0 to 1.6. Frogs of both sexes were estimated to breed for the first time at the age of one or two years, and their maximum age was four years according to skeletochronology using phalanges and mark-recapture. Modes of the estimated ages were one year for males during the study years except 1997, but one or two years for females. Two thirds of breeding frogs, irrespective of their sex, were estimated to breed only once throughout their lives.
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