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Article: HERMAPHRODITE FROGS FOUND IN SUBURBAN PONDS
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- Rachel's Democracy & Health News
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- April 10, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Environmental Research Foundation Apr 10, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Common frogs that make their homes in suburban areas are more likely than their rural counterparts to develop the reproductive abnormalities previously found in fish in the Potomac and Mississippi Rivers, according to the study by David Skelly, a professor of ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Dr. Skelly's research found that 21 percent of male green frogs, Rana clamitans, taken from suburban Connecticut ponds are hermaphrodites, with immature eggs growing in their testes.
The study is the latest in a decade's worth of research that has found intersex characteristics in water-dwelling species like sharp-tooth catfish in South Africa, small-mouth bass on the ...