Back قيطم مداري Arabic قيطم مدارى ARZ Xenopus tropicalis Bulgarian Silurana tropicalis CEB Xenopus tropicalis Spanish Silurana tropicalis EU قورباغه پنجهدار غربی FA Xenopus tropicalis French Xenopus tropicalis GL ネッタイツメガエル Japanese
| Western clawed frog | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pipidae |
| Genus: | Xenopus |
| Species: | X. tropicalis
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| Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)
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The western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae, also known as tropical clawed frog.[2] It is the only species in the genus Xenopus to have a diploid genome.[3][4] Its genome has been sequenced,[5][6] making it a significant model organism for genetics that complements the related species Xenopus laevis (the African clawed frog),[7] 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 (1.6–2.4 in) body length), and a larger number of eggs per spawn.[8]
It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and possibly Mali. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, and canals and ditches.
- ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2019). "Xenopus tropicalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T89256756A107607050. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T89256756A107607050.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ^ Harland RM, Grainger RM (December 2011). "Xenopus research: metamorphosed by genetics and genomics". Trends in Genetics. 27 (12): 507–15. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2011.08.003. PMC 3601910. PMID 21963197.
- ^ Amaya E, Offield MF, Grainger RM (July 1998). "Frog genetics: Xenopus tropicalis jumps into the future". Trends in Genetics. 14 (7): 253–5. doi:10.1016/s0168-9525(98)01506-6. PMID 9676522.
- ^ Hellsten U, Harland RM, Gilchrist MJ, Hendrix D, Jurka J, Kapitonov V, et al. (2010-04-30). "The genome of the Western clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis". Science. 328 (5978): 633–636. Bibcode:2010Sci...328..633H. doi:10.1126/science.1183670. PMC 2994648. PMID 20431018.
- ^ JGI X. tropicalis v4.1
- ^ Bowes JB, Snyder KA, Segerdell E, Gibb R, Jarabek C, Noumen E, et al. (January 2008). "Xenbase: a Xenopus biology and genomics resource". Nucleic Acids Research. 36 (Database issue): D761-7. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm826. PMC 2238855. PMID 17984085.
- ^ "Bringing Genetics To Xenopus: Half The Genome, Twice As Fast". University of Virginia. Retrieved 2009-10-24.