Strigea robusta causes polydactyly and severe forms of Rostand’s anomaly P in water frogs

Abstract Background Cases of polydactyly in natural populations of amphibians have attracted great interest from biologists. At the end of the 1940s, the French biologist Jean Rostand discovered a polymorphic syndrome in some water frog (Anura: Pelophylax) populations that included polydactyly and s...

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Main Authors: Anton O. Svinin, Ivan V. Bashinskiy, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Oleg A. Ermakov, Alexander Yu. Ivanov, Leonid A. Neymark, Aleksander A. Vedernikov, Vitalij V. Osipov, Galina P. Drobot, Alain Dubois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-020-04256-2