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Volume 156, Number 3 (July 17, 1999)

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A surprising tale of a frog's tail

Scientists begin to tease out how tadpoles' tails disappear, or are resorbed, during metamorphosis into frogs.

References:

Brown, D.D. 1999. Amphibian metamorphosis. Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology. June. Charlottesville, Va.

Sources:

Donald D. Brown
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department of Embryology and Biology
115 West University Parkway
Baltimore, MD 21210

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 3, July 17, 1999, p. 43. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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