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Xenopus

(Science: molecular biology) The genus of african clawed toads, X. Laevis is widely used in developmental biology and was formerly used in pregnancy diagnosis. Ovulates easily under influence of luteinising hormone.


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Frog Egg Physilogy

... just put them in distilled water and the put them in the PCR reaction. Anyway, i think that you would have better chance looking up a protocol for Xenopus laevis, people have been studying the eggs of that organism for decades. Then try that and see if it works

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by MrMistery
Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:54 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Frog Egg Physilogy
Replies: 2
Views: 468

Re: IBO 2003 questions- please help me out

... proteins that were, as best as I could find, equally distant from a human protein. Here’s what I found.: Histone H1 (Human) is 72% identical to Xenopus (frog) H1 and 54% identical to Sea Urchin H1 DNA Polymerase A (Human) is 67% identical to Xenopus Polym A and 37% identical to Arabadopsis (a ...

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by blcr11
Tue May 13, 2008 10:29 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: IBO 2003 questions- please help me out
Replies: 9
Views: 1557

Hard Advanced Cell Biology Question

... a lot of trouble approaching - I was wondering if anyone could help me: A graduate student you know is researching a cell line obtained from Xenopus embryos that, at 21C, proliferate and differentiate into cardiomyoctes. The signaling system leading to differentiation seems to involve the ...

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by superscience
Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:41 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Hard Advanced Cell Biology Question
Replies: 0
Views: 577

The Fiber Disease

... ratio. The organisms used in our tree and the accession numbers for their small subunit rRNA sequences include Artemia salina (X01723), Xenopus laevis (X04025), Mytilus edulis (L24489), Tripedalia cystophora (L10829), Microciona prolifera (L10825), Diaphanoeca grandis (L10824), Rosette ...

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by al
Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:39 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748656

The Fiber Disease

... frequently associated with the regulatory regions of genes of diverse flowering plants. TEs with similar properties also have been described in Xenopus (8), humans (9, 10), and the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti (11). Most, but not all, TE families are made up of both autonomous and nonautonomous ...

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by codon blue
Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:04 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748656
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