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3 - Extra-Legged Frogs

from Part I - Frogs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

Lewis I. Held, Jr
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
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The abnormal animal featured here is a frog with extra legs. It grew the extra legs because it was infected with a parasite when it was a tadpole, and the parasite caused the growing leg to split into pieces. A similar thing happens in a fly that also has extra legs, except that there there's no parasite, just necrosis.

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Animal Anomalies
What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development
, pp. 29 - 50
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Extra-Legged Frogs
  • Lewis I. Held, Jr, Texas Tech University
  • Book: Animal Anomalies
  • Online publication: 26 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108876612.006
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  • Extra-Legged Frogs
  • Lewis I. Held, Jr, Texas Tech University
  • Book: Animal Anomalies
  • Online publication: 26 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108876612.006
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  • Extra-Legged Frogs
  • Lewis I. Held, Jr, Texas Tech University
  • Book: Animal Anomalies
  • Online publication: 26 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108876612.006
Available formats
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