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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-07-01
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Series: | Parasites & Vectors |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-020-04256-2 |