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The introduction of Xenopus laevis into developmental biology: of empire, pregnancy testing and ribosomal genes
1 Jan 2000
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The ever greater concentration of biomedical research on fewerand fewer species is a striking general feature of the postwar era. Indevelopmental biology, the South African clawed frog Xenopuslaevis is, with Drosophila, the mouse, the chick, C. elegans and thezebrafish, one of only half-a-dozen ‘model’ organisms used for thevast majority of research. How did a species which occurs naturallyonly in Southern and...
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