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Science 15 April 1977:
Vol. 196. no. 4287, pp. 315 - 317
DOI: 10.1126/science.847473
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Science, Vol 196, Issue 4287, 315-317
Copyright © 1977 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Neoplastic and possibly related skin lesions in neotonic tiger salamanders from a sewage lagoon

FL Rose and JC Harshbarger

Tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) inhabiting a sewage sedimentation lagoon become neotenic, and approximately one-third develop neoplastic skin lesions including cancer. Circumstances suggest a chemical etiology for the neoplasms.


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