Frogs without polliwogs: Evolution of anuran direct development

BioEssays

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 233-241

  Callery, Elizabeth M ^a   Fang, Hung ^b   Elinson, Richard P ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METAMORPHOSIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANURA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES;

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; HYLIDAE;

EID: 0035112046     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-1878(200103)23:3<233::AID-BIES1033>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Review

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