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Unlocking puberty secrets: What frogs reveal about human growth
Tadpoles are to frogs as oranges are to ... In his lab, Buchholz is using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to modify African clawed frogs, a species used as a model system in both biology and medicine.
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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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Rapid evolution: African clawed frog sex determination challenges prevailing theory
More information: Ben J Evans et al, Rapid Sex Chromosome Turnover in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) and the Origins of New Sex Chromosomes, Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1093 ...