... ) Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 30 12 2013 16 9 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 TGFβ Foxh1 Smad Mesendoderm Morphogenesis Cell fate Oct4 Pou5f1 Xenopus tropicalis Signaling Genomics ChIP-seq RNA...

... ( Gentsch et al., 2013 ). In this work, we describe the pattern and sequence of gene activity in the Xenopus tropicalis embryo between fertilisation and the onset of gastrulation. A distinctive feature of this work is the use of a fine-grained and temporally unbiased embryonic time series. The high...

...Xiaogang Guo; Tiejun Zhang; Zheng Hu; Yanqi Zhang; Zhaoying Shi; Qinhu Wang; Yan Cui; Fengqin Wang; Hui Zhao; Yonglong Chen For the emerging amphibian genetic model Xenopus tropicalis targeted gene disruption is dependent on zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) or transcription activator-like effector...

..., USA Competing interests statement 6 4 2010 © 2010. Tbx20 Cardiogenesis Cardiac Heart Xenopus laevis Xenopus tropicalis SMAD1 SMAD4 T-box BMP Zebrafish Transgenesis A series of clinical studies has provided direct evidence...

... known gene to be expressed specifically in the dorsolateral mesoderm of the gastrula, a domain that is established by the interaction of dorsal and ventral signals. For this reason, we have begun to investigate how the expression of Xmyf-5 is regulated. We have identified a 7.28 kb Xenopus tropicalis...

... Xenopus laevis Xenopus tropicalis Fully grown Xenopus oocytes are arrested at the G 2 /M boundary of the first meiotic division (MI) and contain a pool of pre-MPF (M-phase promoting factor) ( Cyert and Kirschner, 1988 ), a protein kinase composed of p34 cdc2 and a B-type cyclin ( Draetta et...

... of differentiation. Xenopus tropicalis was used to make GFP reporter lines with γ1-crystallin promoter elements directing GFP expression within the early lens. X. tropicalis is a close relative of X. laevis that shares the same ease of tissue manipulation with the added benefits of a diploid genome and faster life...