Frye, Fredric L.

3 publications

Frye, Fredric L.; Herald, Earl S. (detail)
1969Osteomyelitis in a manatee.
Jour. Amer. Veter. Med. Assoc. 155(7): 1073-1076. 5 figs. Oct. 1, 1969.
—Describes the treatment and medication given for an infected harpoon wound to a young male T. inunguis from Colombia, captive at Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco, California.
Loughman, William D.; Frye, Fredric L.; Herald, Earl S. (detail)
1970The chromosomes of a male manatee Trichechus inunguis.
Internatl. Zoo Yearbk. 10: 151-152. 1 tab. Pl. 49.
—Describes and illustrates the karyotype of the Steinhart Aquarium's manatee. He was found to have 56 chromosomes, like both species of elephants, but of different types, indicating a rather distant relationship.
Domning, Daryl Paul; Frye, Fredric L. (detail)
1975Pathology of two fossil sea cows (Mammalia: Sirenia).
PaleoBios (Berkeley, Univ. Calif. Mus. Pal.) No. 18: 1-4. 2 pls. July 10, 1975.
—Reprinted in a bound vol. of the early issues of PaleoBios, 1980. Describes fractures, osteomyelitis, and ossifying spondylosis in Metaxytherium jordani and osteitis deformans or osteitis fibrosa in Hydrodamalis n.sp. from California.