Skin color studies on tadpoles lead to cancer advance
...ied a compound which, when introduced into Xenopus
laevis tadpoles, blocks the movement of the pigment cells...ght skin cancer in humans."
The species Xenopus
laevis (South African clawed frog) is more closely relate...s tadpoles and humans.
Until the 1960s, Xenopus
laevis frogs were used as the main human pregnancy test. ...
New Studies On Zebrafish Could Aid in Treating Birth Defects
...te student Bryce A. Mendelsohn from Washington University in St. Louis.
For many years, scientists have relied on the mouse and the frog Xenopus
laevis as research models for vertebrates (animals with backbones), but zebrafish have an important advantage for studying early development: It is possible ...
Developmental biology
...velopmental biology include the following:
Chordates
Lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum
Zebrafish Danio rerio
Frogs Xenopus
laevis
Chicken Gallus gallus
Mouse Mus musculus ( Mammalian embryogenesis )
Invertebrates
Sea urchin
Round worm Caenorhabditi...
Genome project
...
Arbacia punctulata the purple-spined sea urchin
Caenorhabditis elegans a nematode worm
Brachydanio rerio Zebrafish
Xenopus
laevis The African clawed toad
Oryzias latipes A medakafish
Takifugu rubipres A pufferfish
See also
model organism
Internatio...
Xenopus
...rog) Xenopus andrei ... Reacts with Xenopus
laevis and all Mammals.Not yet tested in other species. ....opus . researchers, Affymetrix array ... Xenopus
laevis is one of the few species of frogs. that can be ...l areas in vertebrate ... In the former, Xenopus
laevis has led the way in identifying the mechanisms of ....
Wild-type
.... In genetics, the wild - type organisms serve as the original ... ...
laevis laevis - Imported wild type (pigmented) Our Imported wild type Xenopus
laevis are very ... Lab bred frogs never are exposed to the same rigid standards ....
Wildtype
...(genetics), ...code. ... Aspects of the topic wild-type are discussed in the following places at Britannica. ... Our Imported wild type Xenopus
laevis are very hardy animals. Lab bred frogs never are exposed to the same rigid standards and tests as in nature. ... ...
Wild type
... http://www.pdunited.co.uk /pokescreens/screenshots1 .html. Take ... ...
laevis laevis - Imported wild type (pigmented) Our Imported wild type Xenopus
laevis are very ... complete metamorphosis, all types of fierce weather conditio...
Neurula
...l of MSN Encarta. E-mail this entry ... African clawed frog protein-coding gene nfrl-A. Represented by 10 ESTs from 5 cDNA libraries. ... Xenopus
laevis neurula -specific ferredoxin reductase-like ... Neurula ,biological,biology dictionary,biology terminology,biology terms,biology abbreviations .....
DNA ligase
...t, the DNA ligase III cDNA contains an in-frame ATG located upstream from ... More recently, a DNA ligase activity was purified from Xenopus
laevis ... DNA Ligase IV exists as a complex with XRCC4 and plays an important role in V(D) ... DNA Ligase IV joins single-strand breaks in a doub...
Blastopore
...the blastopore , becomes either the mouth or the anus of animals ... A novel, activin-inducible, blastopore lip-specific gene of Xenopus
laevis ... The organizer region, or dorsal blastopore lip, plays a central role in the ... ...