- Western clawed frog
Taxobox
name = Western Clawed Frog
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Amphibia
ordo =Anura
familia =Pipidae
subfamilia = Xenopodinae
genus = "Xenopus "
species = "X. tropicalis"
binomial = "Xenopus tropicalis"
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synonyms = The Western clawed frog ("Xenopus tropicalis") is a species of frog in thePipidae family. It is the only species in the Xenopus genus to have a diploid genome. [Enrique Amaya, Martin F. Offield, and Robert M. Grainger. Frog genetics: Xenopus tropicalis jumps into the future. Trends in Genetics. Volume 14, Issue 7, 1 July 1998, Pages 253-255.] Its genome has been sequenced [ [http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr4/Xentr4.home.html JGI X. tropicalis v4.1] ] , making it a significantmodel organism forgenetics that complements the related species "Xenopus laevis" (theAfrican clawed frog ) [Bowes "et al" (2008). [http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/36/suppl_1/D761 Xenbase: a Xenopus biology and genomics resource.] "Nucleic Acids Res" 36:D761.] , a widely usedvertebrate model fordevelopmental biology .References
External links
* [http://www.xenbase.org/ Xenbase] "Xenopus" model organism database
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