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Visual, spectrochemical, and histochemical analyses of tadpoles of two tailless amphibian species (Rana temporaria L. and Bufo bufo L) developed under simulation of water pollution by plumbum and ferruginous alloys demonstrated an alimentary way of the delivery of these metal ions in the organism. Accumulation of these metal ions occurs in intestine and liver tissues and increases with the development.
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Original Russian Text © E.A. Severtsova, A.I. Nikiforova, D.R. Aguillon Gutierrez, 2013, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2013, No. 4, pp. 27–32.
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Severtsova, E.A., Nikiforova, A.I. & Aguillon Gutierrez, D.R. Spectrochemical and histochemical analyses of tissues of grass frog and gray toad tadpoles developing under simulation of pollution by plumbum and ferrum. Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 68, 186–191 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S009639251304010X
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