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Wild Cane Toads (Rhinella marina) Expel Foreign Matter from the Coelom via the Urinary Bladder in Response to Internal Injury, Endoparasites and Disease

Dissections of >1,200 wild-caught cane toads (Rhinella marina) in tropical Australia confirm a laboratory report that anurans can expel foreign objects from the coelom by incorporating them into the urinary bladder. The foreign objects that we found inside bladders included a diverse array of ite...

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Autores principales: Kelehear, Crystal, Jones, Hugh I., Wood, Benjamin A., Shine, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4533966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26267862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134036