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Xenopus
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Xenopus () (from Greek ξενος, xenos 'strange' + πους, pous 'foot', commonly known as the clawed frog) is a genus of highly aquatic frogs native to sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty species are currently described within it. The two best-known species of this genus are Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis, which are commonly studied as model organisms for developmental biology, cell biology, toxicology, neuroscience and for modelling human disease and birth defects.
Species
African Clawed Frog
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAmphibia
- OrderAnura
- FamilyPipidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 824
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Pipidae
- Collections
- CM, ROM, CAS, CUMV, YPM, KU
- Recorded in
- Uganda, Cameroon, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Kenya, Zambia, Equatorial Guinea
Research
55,336 papers- Xenopus leads the way: Frogs as a pioneering model to understand the human brain.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2021
- Convergent extension in the amphibian, Xenopus laevis.Current topics in developmental biology · 2020
- Xenopus laevis as a model system to study cytoskeletal dynamics during axon pathfinding.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2017
- Xenopus laevis in developmental and molecular biology.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 1988
- Genetics and Gene Editing Methods in Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis.Cold Spring Harbor protocols · 2023
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- model organism
- Parent taxon
- Pipidae
- Image
- Xenopus laevis.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- taxon common name
- Pençeli kurbağa
- topic's main category
- Category:Xenopus
- Commons category
- Xenopus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Xenopus
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Description
- Behaviour
- Species
- Extant species
- Fossil species
- Model organism for biological research
- Online Model Organism Database
- Investigation of human disease genes
- Investigation of fundamental biological processes
- Small molecule screens to develop novel therapies
- Genetic studies
- Gene expression knockdown techniques
- Morpholino oligonucleotides
- References
- External links
Xenopus () (from Greek ξενος, xenos 'strange' + πους, pous 'foot', commonly known as the clawed frog) is a genus of highly aquatic frogs native to sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty species are currently described within it. The two best-known species of this genus are Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis, which are commonly studied as model organisms for developmental biology, cell biology, toxicology, neuroscience and for modelling human disease and birth defects.
The genus is also known for its polyploidy, with some species having up to 12 sets of chromosomes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xenopus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.