Publication Date:
1999-04-30
Description:
Morphological analysis was performed on multilegged deformed frogs representing five species from 12 different localities in California, Oregon, Arizona, and New York. The pattern of duplicated limbs was consistent with mechanical perturbation by trematode infestation but not with the effects of retinoids.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sessions, S K -- Franssen, R A -- Horner, V L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 30;284(5415):800-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820, USA. sessionss@hartwick.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10221911" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anura/*abnormalities/*parasitology
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Forelimb/*abnormalities
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Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/drug effects
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Hindlimb/*abnormalities/parasitology
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Limb Buds/drug effects/metabolism
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Ranidae/abnormalities/parasitology
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Trematode Infections/parasitology/*veterinary
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Tretinoin/*toxicity
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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