Formerly, low and moderate elevations in the drainage of the lower Colorado River and its tributaries in Nevada, California, Arizona, and New Mexico (USA), and central Sonora to western Chihuahuah, and extreme northeastern Baja California del Norte (Mexico). Now extinct over large portions of its former distribution
Antimicrobial & other activities
antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer
Tissue
Skin
Sequence
Length
24
References:
1. for MIC/HC50
J.M. Conlon et al. / Toxicon 53 (2009) 699-705. Peptides with potent cytolytic activity from the skin secretions of the North American leopard frogs, Lithobates blairi and Lithobates yavapaiensis; J.M. Conlon et al. / Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C 151 (2010) 313-317. Primary structures of skin antimicrobial peptides indicate a close, but not conspecific, phylogenetic relationship between the leopard frogs Lithobates onca and Lithobates yavapaiensis (Ranidae)