The lifespan of Xenopus laevis is presented in unprecedented detail using high-quality X-ray microtomography images and 3D reconstructions to reveal embryonic development and metamorphosis processes ...

Good things come but once a year, but the international Xenopus conference is so good it only comes around every other year. The conference brought together researchers from nearby Europe, further ...

The cytoplasm of ruptured Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments, according to a study. Can scrambled eggs unscramble themselves? Well, sort of. The cytoplasm of ...

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the University of California, Berkeley, is publishing this week the first genome sequence of an amphibian, the ...

This paper reviews nineteen different classes of neuron present in the nervous system of late embryos of the amphibian Xenopus laevis to see how far the behaviour of these animals can be explained in ...

Can scrambled eggs unscramble themselves? Well, sort of. The cytoplasm of ruptured Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments, according to a study by researchers at the ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. A team of Russian scientists has studied the Noggin4 protein that plays a crucial role in the formation of the Xenopus toad heads (Xenopus laevis), the Institute of Bioorganic ...

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A microscope image of a Xenopus tadpole head, highlighting its nervous system in green, muscle in red, and cell nuclei in blue. Image by Helen Rankin Willsey A new study of autism risk genes by UC San ...

When a species diverges into two separate species, the closely resembling but non-identical copies of the ancestral gene present in the new species are called 'orthologous' genes. Orthologous genes ...