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Xenopus tropicalis: an ideal experimental animal in amphibia.
Experimental animals - 1 Jan 2010
Kashiwagi Keiko, Kashiwagi Akihiko, Kurabayashi Atsushi, Hanada Hideki, Nakajima Keisuke, Okada Morihiro, Takase Minoru, Yaoita Yoshio
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Studies using amphibians have contributed to the progress of life science including developmental biology and cell biology for more than one hundred years. Since the 1950s Xenopus laevis in particular has been used by scientists in many fields for experiments, resulting in the development of various techniques such as microsurgery on early embryos, biosynthesis of gene-encoded protein in oocytes by mRNA...
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