Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2
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Blog Post
...and Tol2 transposase induced transgenesis.
Xenopus
Xenopus, or frogs, are one of the most popular model... developmental and biomedical research.
Xenopus, aka African frog. Image from Holger Krisp.
...major resource for frog research is The National Xenopus Resource, a breeding facility for X. laevis and...embryogenesis. Addgene has over 600 plasmids that contain Xenopus genes and a tool-kit from the Hamdoun Lab to create... fusions in a multitude of organisms including Xenopus. Overall, the ability for scientists to study human...10.7554/elife.05826
Blum, M., & Ott, T. (2018). Xenopus: An Undervalued Model Organism to Study and Model...