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The Effect of Trematode Infection on Amphibian Limb Development and Survivorship

Overview of attention for article published in Science, April 1999
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (58th percentile)

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Title
The Effect of Trematode Infection on Amphibian Limb Development and Survivorship
Published in
Science, April 1999
DOI 10.1126/science.284.5415.802
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Authors

Pieter T. J. Johnson, Kevin B. Lunde, Euan G. Ritchie, Alan E. Launer

Abstract

The causes of amphibian deformities and their role in widespread amphibian declines remain conjectural. Severe limb abnormalities were induced at high frequencies in Pacific treefrogs (Hyla regilla) exposed to cercariae of a trematode parasite (Ribeiroia sp.). The abnormalities closely matched those observed at field sites, and an increase in parasite density caused an increase in abnormality frequency and a decline in tadpole survivorship. These findings call for further investigation of parasite infection as a cause of amphibian deformities in other sites and species.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 13 5%
United States 11 4%
Australia 2 <1%
Argentina 2 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Unknown 248 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 50 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 15%
Student > Master 41 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 8%
Student > Bachelor 20 7%
Other 56 20%
Unknown 47 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 166 59%
Environmental Science 33 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 1%
Other 14 5%
Unknown 49 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 April 2022.
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#3,679,124
of 23,479,361 outputs
Outputs from Science
#36,048
of 78,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,286
of 35,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#106
of 258 outputs
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