Mystery unsolved: Missing limbs in deformed amphibians

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 314 B, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-181

  Skelly, David K ^a   Benard, Michael F ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); RIBEIROIA; SYMPETRUM;

EID: 77950895058     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21330     Document Type: Article

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