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The phylogenetic status of phyllomedusine frogs (hylidae) as evidenced from immunological studies of their serum albumins

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Based on immunological comparisons of the serum albumins of phyllomedusine frogs with both hyline and bufonid species, it is suggested that phyllomedusine frogs be erected to familial status within the superfamily Bufonoidea.

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  1. Department of Genetics and Development, University of Illinois, 515 Morrill Hall, 61801, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    Linda Maxson

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This study was initiated in the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley. Part of this work was supported by NSF grant No. DEB75-23543

The author gratefully acknowledges the helpful advice and discussion ofA. C. Wilson. Thanks are also due toD. Wake, H. Cogger, W. Duellman andR. Heyer for generously supplying frog samples.

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Maxson, L. The phylogenetic status of phyllomedusine frogs (hylidae) as evidenced from immunological studies of their serum albumins. Experientia 32, 1149–1150 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01927594

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