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Human Urine and Frogs: How a Bizarre Pregnancy Test Helped Unleash a Global Amphibian Crisis
The African clawed frog is an evolutionary marvel — an entirely aquatic species with powerful hind legs, flattened bodies, ...
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Frogs used to tell women if they were pregnant - here's how the test worked and why it was popular for decades
The "Hogben test" got its start in 1930, when British biologist Lancelot Hogben began looking into what he called a godsend for hormone research: The African clawed frog, or Xenopus laevis.
Genetic basis for the evolution of hair discovered in the clawed frog
The study revealed that the cornified claws of Xenopus frogs consist of special proteins (keratins) that are very similar to ...
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Image of the Day: Scrambled Frog Eggs
When Xenopus frog eggs are experimentally ruptured, their cytoplasm rearranges itself to form compartments similar to cells, according to a study published October 31 in Science. The researchers, led ...
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Marked swelling with coalescing ecchymoses of the lower mandible in a Xenopus laevis frog
A female African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, was housed at the Biological Resources Facility of North Carolina State University in a tank with two other females. The frog was ∼1.5 years old and ...
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Andre Luiz Pasqua Tavares
Our goal is to determine the role of the transcription factor SIX1 and SIX1-associated genes in de velopment of the cranial bones, jaws and ear using transgenic mice and Xenopus (frog). Our ...
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Transgenic frogs
In the February 5 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Katharine Hartley and colleagues at the Wellcome/CRC Institute Cambridge, UK, report application of the Gal4–UAS system to ...