{"id":159601,"date":"2014-11-23T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=159601"},"modified":"2014-12-23T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:16:42","slug":"noisy-frogs-sleepless-nights-in-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/noisy-frogs-sleepless-nights-in-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy frogs, sleepless nights in S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_159602\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159602\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Tecno_sapo2.jpg\" alt=\"Native to the Antilles, E. johnstonei has taken up residence in a S\u00e3o Paulo neighborhood\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Tecno_sapo2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Tecno_sapo2-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Tecno_sapo2-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">C\u00c9LIO HADDAD \/ UNESP<\/span>Native to the Antilles, <em>E. johnstonei<\/em> has taken up residence in a S\u00e3o Paulo neighborhood<span class=\"media-credits\">C\u00c9LIO HADDAD \/ UNESP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>One night in 2012, a woman living in the Brooklin neighborhood of S\u00e3o Paulo heard a strange noise, so she called City Hall. Marcos Melo, the employee who went to investigate, recorded the sound and identified the culprit as <em><i>Eleutherodactylus johnstonei<\/i><\/em>, a tiny frog native to the Antilles. The frog&#8217;s ID was confirmed by biologist Mariana Lyra, a member of the research group headed by zoologist C\u00e9lio Haddad at the Rio Claro campus of S\u00e3o Paulo State University (Unesp). She compared segments of its DNA to sequences that had been deposited in the international gene bank GenBank. These animals, which are three centimeters long at most, are believed to \u201chitchhike\u201d on commercially available plants, but no one really knows how they spread to an entire city block in S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cThey are everywhere,\u201d says Haddad. \u201cIn cracks in the walls, inside houses, in gardens.\u201d This type of frog doesn&#8217;t need pooled water to reproduce because its young emerge fully formed from their eggs, which means there is a strong possibility that it will become an invasive species. Its call, similar to a blaring siren, is so loud that the woman who made the complaint ended up hospitalized for lack of sleep. Health concerns aside, the frog&#8217;s deafening song could also affect the real estate market, as it did in a similar case in Hawaii. Accurate genetic identification can be crucial in finding a solution as quickly as possible, warns the paper published in <em><i>Salamandra \u2013 German Journal of Herpetology<\/i><\/em> on October 30, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noisy frogs, sleepless nights in S\u00e3o Paulo","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[206,209,224,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-159601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-ecology","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159601"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=159601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}