Germ plasm in Eleutherodactylus coqui, a direct developing frog with large eggs

EvoDevo

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Elinson, Richard P ^a   Sabo, Michelle C ^a   Fisher, Cara ^a   Yamaguchi, Takeshi ^b   Orii, Hidefumi ^b   Nath, Kimberly ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84877142838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-2-20     Document Type: Article

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