A database of amphibian karyotypes
Summary
Ingested 2026-04-21. 1 findings extracted and verified.
Findings worth citing
Finding 1 — The Amphibian Karyotype Database contains 2124 karyotype records, more than doubling the records in the previous (1990) compilation, with 1833 Anura, 246 Caudata, and 45 Gymnophiona records.
The Amphibian Karyotype Database currently contains 2124 records, which is more than a two-fold increase since the last compilation published nearly 30 years ago. With 1833 records, the vast majority of current data is comprised of frogs (Anura). In contrast, Caudata and Gymnophiona have only 246 and 45 records, respectively. — p. 4
Why this is citable: This quantifies the scope of the resource and is the headline fact any downstream comparative study citing the database will want to reference.
Counter / limitation: The counts are sampling-biased toward frogs and reflect accumulated literature rather than balanced phylogenetic coverage, so analyses drawing on the database must account for uneven taxonomic representation.
Topics: karyotype_database, karyotype_evolution_overview
Read the paper
doi.org/10.1007/s10577-019-09613-1
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