| hydrocoelom and lymphedema in dendrobatid frogs at national aquarium, baltimore: 2003-2011. | hydrocoelom and lymphedema are common in amphibians. in the family dendrobatidae at the national aquarium, baltimore, prevalence was 3.19% from 2005 to 2011. complete review of all cases in dendrobatids from 01 january 2003 to 01 june 2011 at the national aquarium identified annual incidence rate, associated signs, diagnostic findings, therapeutics, and outcomes using medical record review. associated etiologies were assessed via available necropsy and histopathology reports. hydrocoelom was def ... | 2015 | 25831572 |
| chromosome analysis of five brazilian species of poison frogs (anura: dendrobatidae). | dendrobatid frogs have undergone an extensive systematic reorganization based on recent molecular findings. the present work describes karyotypes of the brazilian species adelphobates castaneoticus, a. quinquevittatus, ameerega picta, a. galactonotus and dendrobates tinctorius which were compared to each other and with previously described related species. all karyotypes consisted of 2n = 18 chromosomes, except for a. picta which had 2n = 24. the karyotypes of the adelphobates and d. tinctorius ... | 2011 | 21677386 |