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Western Clawed Frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Amphibia;
Order:	Anura;
Family:	Pipidae;
Subfamily:	Xenopodinae;
Genus:	Xenopus;
Species:	X. tropicalis;
Binomial name
	Xenopus tropicalis;

The Western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) is a species of frog in the Pipidae family. It is the only species in the Xenopus genus to have a diploid genome.^[1] Its genome has been sequenced^[2], making it a significant model organism for genetics that complements the related species Xenopus laevis (the African clawed frog)^[3], a widely used vertebrate model for developmental biology. X. tropicalis also has a number of advantages over X. laevis in research, such as a much shorter generation time (<5 months), smaller size (4-6 cm body length), and a larger number of eggs per spawn.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Enrique Amaya, Martin F. Offield, and Robert M. Grainger. Frog genetics: Xenopus tropicalis jumps into the future. Trends in Genetics. Volume 14, Issue 7, 1 July 1998, Pages 253-255.
^ JGI X. tropicalis v4.1
^ Bowes et al. (2008). Xenbase: a Xenopus biology and genomics resource. Nucleic Acids Res 36:D761.
^ "Bringing Genetics To Xenopus: Half The Genome, Twice As Fast". University of Virginia. http://faculty.virginia.edu/xtropicalis/overview/intro.html. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

[edit] External links

Xenbase Xenopus model organism database

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[0] Enrique Amaya, Martin F. Offield, and Robert M. Grainger. Frog genetics: Xenopus tropicalis jumps into the future. Trends in Genetics. Volume 14, Issue 7, 1 July 1998, Pages 253-255.

[1] JGI X. tropicalis v4.1

[2] Bowes et al. (2008). Xenbase: a Xenopus biology and genomics resource. Nucleic Acids Res 36:D761.

[3] "Bringing Genetics To Xenopus: Half The Genome, Twice As Fast". University of Virginia. http://faculty.virginia.edu/xtropicalis/overview/intro.html. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

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