Itpka depletion implicates defects in anterior neural development of Xenopus laevis [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental BiologyInositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase A (Itpka) is a neuronal isoform of the ITPK family that regulates both actin dynamics and calcium signaling. While itpka deficiency in adult mice mainly results in central nervous system phenotypes, its contribution ...
Ernestine Saumweber +10 more
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The two sub-genomes of the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis are evolving under similar selective pressure in extant populations [PDF]
BMC GenomicsThe model species Xenopus laevis is an allotetraploid species, whose genome consists of two sub-genomes (the L and S sub-genomes) that were inherited from its parental species. Previous studies comparing the genome of X.
Dareen Almojil +4 more
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Establishment of the body condition score for adult female Xenopus laevis.
PLoS ONE, 2023 The assessment of animals' health and nutritional status using a Body Condition Score (BCS) has become a common and reliable tool in lab-animal science. It enables a simple, semi-objective, and non-invasive assessment (palpation of osteal prominences and
Leonie Tix +5 more
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Cells, 2022 Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited retinal dystrophy that ultimately leads to blindness due to the progressive degeneration of rod photoreceptors and the subsequent non-cell autonomous death of cones.
Karine Parain +7 more
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Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Xenopus collected in Africa (1871-2000) and in California (2001-2010). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 International trade of the invasive South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), a subclinical carrier of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatis (Bd) has been proposed as a major means of introduction of Bd into naïve, susceptible amphibian ...
Vance T Vredenburg +5 more
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Morphological, acoustic and genetic identification of a reproducing population of the invasive African clawed frog Xenopus laevis (Anura, Pipidae) recently discovered in Belgium [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Using external morphology of adults and tadpoles, osteology from high-resolution microcomputed tomography, vocalization analysis, and DNA sequence data, the identity of a reproducing Belgian population of invasive Xenopus at the current northernmost edge
Olivier S. G. Pauwels +5 more
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The skin microbiome of Xenopus laevis and the effects of husbandry conditions
Animal Microbiome, 2021 Background Historically the main source of laboratory Xenopus laevis was the environment. The increase in genetically altered animals and evolving governmental constraints around using wild-caught animals for research has led to the establishment of ...
Maya Z. Piccinni +4 more
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Evolutionary divergence in tail regeneration between Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis
Cell & Bioscience, 2021 Tissue regeneration is of fast growing importance in the development of biomedicine, particularly organ replacement therapies. Unfortunately, many human organs cannot regenerate.
Shouhong Wang, Yun-Bo Shi
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Comparative Analysis of Cartilage Marker Gene Expression Patterns during Axolotl and Xenopus Limb Regeneration. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) can completely regenerate lost limbs, whereas Xenopus laevis frogs cannot. During limb regeneration, a blastema is first formed at the amputation plane.
Kazumasa Mitogawa +3 more
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Competition and feeding ecology in two sympatric Xenopus species (Anura: Pipidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The widespread African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) occurs in sympatry with the IUCN Endangered Cape platanna (Xenopus gilli) throughout its entire range in the south-western Cape, South Africa.
Solveig Vogt +4 more
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