3 - Extra-Legged Frogs
from Part I - Frogs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2021
Summary
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 AnomaliesWhat Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development, pp. 29 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021