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S. Radhakrishnan) and cottonmouth (RTLA 2208; J. E. Cooper) hemangio¬ 
endothelioma and a possible mucoadenocarcinoma in a boa constrictor 
(RTLA 2133; I. Gorman). 
Accessions with interesting though non-neoplastic lesions in¬ 
cluded a series of bivalve mollusks in a disease survey (RTLA 2194- 
RTL^. 2207; W. A. Heath), a planarian with globular growths similar to 
earlier cases containing virus-like inclusions (RTLA 2041; C. Lange), 
Ohio River emerald shiner with cubic nuclear inclusions in dorsal 
root ganglion cells shown by K. Hoover, to be protein (RTLA 
2056), leeches with several lesions including a cuticular hyperplasia 
(RTLA 2044-RTLA 2046; J. Kufel), a cardiac muscle anomaly in an 
American oyster (RTLA 2079; S. V. Otto), coho salmon lens hyper¬ 
plasia (RTLA 2117-RTLA 2122; G. Balouet and F. B. Laurencin), dolphin 
(fish) with fractured centrum of two vertebrae and associated exu¬ 
berant callus formation (RTLA 2167; W. Kandrashoff), fracture of femur 
followed by dystrophic callus formation of leopard frog (RTLA 2191- 
RTLA 2193; A. Klempau), reactive hyperplasia and tooth formation in 
an angelfish (RTLA 2189; G. Blasiola, Jr.), prokaryotes (rickettsia, 
some with phage, and chlamydia) in soft clams (RTLA 2091; J. , 
Harshbarger, £t ^.), a blue mussel (RTLA 2083; R. Higgins), hard 
clams (RTLA 2088 and RTIA 2090; H. Diamond) and other parasites and 
anomalies. 
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The comprehensive library on neoplasms in lower animals in¬ 
creased to 3,830 papers. Except for recent acquisitions and articles 
that need to be translated, all papers have been abstracted by select¬ 
ed key words and computerized. 
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Harshbarger, J. C., S. V. Otto, and S. C. Chang. 1977. (1979). Pro¬ 
liferative disorders in Crassostrea virginica and Mya arenaria 
from, the Chesapeake Bay and intra-nuclear virus-like incl"sions 
in Mya arenaria with germinomas from a Maine oil spill site. 
Haliotis, 243-248. 
Otto, S. V., J. C. Harshbarger, and S. C. Chang. 1977. (1979). Status 
of selected unicellular eucaryote pathogens, and prevalence and 
histopathology of inclusions containing obli^^ate procaryote para¬ 
sites, in commercial bivalve mollusks from Maryland estuaries. 
Haliotis, 8: 285-295. 
DeLanney, L., S. C. Chang, J. Harshbarger, and C. J. Dawe. 1980. 
Mast cell tumors in the caudate amphibian, Ambystoma mexicanum . 
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