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Science 19 April 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3825, pp. 328 - 329
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3825.328
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Germ Cell Chimerism: Absence in Parabiotic Frogs

E. Peter Volpe 1 and Sherill Curtis 1

1 Department of Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Embryos of the leopard frog deprived of primordial germ cells by treatment with ultraviolet light were joined in parabiosis with normal, unirradiated embryos. The irradiated member of the pair was not colonized by germ cells from its normal partner. Unlike the primordial germ cells of birds and mammals, the germ cells of frog embryos are not carried by the circulating blood.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
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E. P. Volpe and E. M. Earley (1970)
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Frog Germ Cells.
H. Wallace, E. P. Volpe, and S. Curtis (1968)
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