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What are the advantages of Xenopus as a model organism? |
1. high fecundity 2. rapid, external development 3. Large embryos 4. Detailed fate map 5. Large amount of maternal mRNAs |
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What biological questions can be asked using Xenopus? |
-germ layer formation -body axis formation -early organogenesis |
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What germ layer mainly forms from the most vegetal cells of a Xenopus blastula? |
endoderm |
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Why use Xenopus tropicalis instead of X. laevis? |
-X. tropicalis is diploid with a small genome that is sequenced and well annotated. Amenable to genetic studies -X. laevis is a pseudo-tetraploid |
