From: matthew.malthouse@guardian.co.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:19:10 +0000
Subject: Re: (urth) other limb causes




On 20/03/2002 02:44:21 maa32 wrote:


>I hypothesized that these limb abnormalities result from
>localized regulatory responses of developing and regenerating limb
tissues to mechanical
>disruption of normal limb pattern forming mechanisms caused by the
trematode cysts. This
>idea was experimentally confirmed by microsurgically implanting inert
resin beads into
>developing limb buds of lab-raised frogs (Xenopus laevis) and salamanders
(Ambystoma
>mexicanum), a treatment that causes the development of supernumerary limb
>structures and other deformities

How does this mechanical intervention support your theories of polyploidy?
 It seems irrelevant to either the support of or refutation of the
theories you have advanced.

Matthew



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