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The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), also known as simply xenopus, African clawed toad, African claw-toed frog or the platanna) is a species of African aquatic frog of the family Pipidae. Its name is derived from the short black claws on its feet. The word Xenopus means 'strange foot' and laevis means 'smooth'.
[4] [5] Xenopus has long been an important tool for in vivo studies in molecular, cell, and developmental biology of vertebrate animals. [5] However, the wide breadth of Xenopus research stems from the additional fact that cell-free extracts made from Xenopus are a premier in vitro system for studies of fundamental aspects of cell and molecular ...
Xenbase is a Model Organism Database (MOD), providing informatics resources, as well as genomic and biological data on Xenopus frogs. [1] Xenbase has been available since 1999, and covers both X. laevis and X. tropicalis Xenopus varieties. [2]
Xenopus lenduensis, the Lendu Plateau clawed frog, is a species of frog in the family Pipidae endemic to the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] References
Xenopus pygmaeus Loumont, 1986 The Bouchia clawed frog ( Xenopus pygmaeus ) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in the Central African Republic , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Uganda , and possibly the Republic of the Congo .
Andre's clawed frog (Xenopus andrei) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae. It is known, with certainty, only from coastal Cameroon (where its type locality , Longyi, near Kribi ), northeastern Gabon , western Central African Republic and northwestern Angola . [ 2 ]
The Kivu clawed frog (Xenopus vestitus) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable ...
Xenopus itombwensis is a species of frogs in the family Pipidae endemic to the Itombwe Massif of the South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] References