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  1. noun Any of various aquatic, tongueless, clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus, native to southern Africa, especially X. laevis, widely used in the study of vertebrate development.

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  • FGF signaling also appears to play a role in tumor growth and angiogenesis, and autocrine FGF signaling may be particularly important in the progression of steroid hormone-dependent cancers to a hormone-independent state. akt b_catenin bmp book chemical cornea crystallin culture_retinal development editorial ephrin ethics eye eye_cone eye_development eye_rotation fgf fgf11 fgf22 fgf23 fgf4 fish fkbp frog gsk3 gsk3h h hedgehog histone_h3 laevis lens mapk mcb529ab1_class mcb580_class method microarray mindbomb modeling mouse nervous_system newt nicl nmda no_pdf notch_delta optic optic_chiasm optic_nerve optic_tectum patched pax-6 pi3k qpcr ras rat regeneration retina retinoic_acid review signaling six-3 smad tgf_beta thrombin to_print transgenic transplantation tropicalis tunel_assay tyrosine_kinase vision wnt xenopus zebrafish CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We discuss how a catalog of structural variation in dogs will accelerate the identification of the genetic basis of canine traits and diseases, beginning with the use of whole genome association and candidate-CNV / gene approaches. adipose agent alignment allometry amphibian androgen animal annotation apical apoptosis arabidopsis assay atlas avian bacterial bayesian beta-gamma binding_sites bioinformatics broiler cancer candidate_gene catbird ccr7 cdc42 celegans cell_culture cell_migration cell_polarity chaperonin chemokine chicken chromatin chromatin_binding cluster cnv copy_number_variation cytoskeleton damid dark_adaptation database development differentiation dinosaur disease_resistance disulfide dna_conformation dna_virus dog domain domains drosophila e3_ubiquitin ecology edn3 egg_laying embryo end endoderm endothelin end_sequencing_profiling energy_balance epi epigenetics epithelial epstein_barr eqtl esp est estrogen evolution expression_analysis expression_qtl eye_development fgf fibroblast_growth_factor fungi gata_factor gene gene_colocalization gene_duplication gene_expression gene_family gene_loss genetic_stocks genome genotype geometry gfp glucokinase glucose half_life hearing heart herpesvirus histon_deacetylase histone_deacetylase hiv homosexuality hox hsv human immunity infection innate insulin insulin_receptor internet intestine irs ischemia jun kinase kit knowledge_base length liver localization lumen_formation map marek marek_disease marek_disease_virus mareks mdv meat_production meetings melanocyte melanoma membrane_protein memory meq mesoderm metagenomics methylation mhc microarray migration mitochondria model morphoenesis morphogenesis muscle nanotubes nematode neocortex network networks neural_crest neuron nfkb notch ocular oncogene orginize orientation ortholog oxidative_stress pancreas paralog pathfinding phylogenetics phylogeny pluripotent polymorphism pro_interaction promoter protein protein_promoter_interactions proteome p-value quantitative receptor recombination regulation retina review rho ribosome rules sbs_sequencing scaffold selectin selection semantic_web shear_stress skeletal_muscle snp software songbird spindle statistics stem_cells steroid stromal system_biology systems_biology t_cell t_cell_receptor teaching tegument termites tight_junctions tiling_array tor total_internal_reflection_microscopy transcription transcription_factories transcriptome transformation transgenic tree ubiquitin uk ul36 unfolded vaccine virus virus_gene virus_glycoprotein virus_latency virus_particle vision visualization wd_repeat wnt wnt5a xenopus yeast zebra_finch zebrafish CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Our results clearly indicate that the levels of functional constraint do depend on the position of the proteins in the pathway and, consequently, the architecture of the pathway constrains gene sequence evolution. adipose agent alignment allometry amphibian androgen animal annotation apical apoptosis arabidopsis assay atlas avian bacterial bayesian beta-gamma binding_sites bioinformatics broiler cancer candidate_gene catbird ccr7 cdc42 celegans cell_culture cell_migration cell_polarity chaperonin chemokine chicken chromatin chromatin_binding cluster cnv copy_number_variation cytoskeleton damid dark_adaptation database development differentiation dinosaur disease_resistance disulfide dna_conformation dna_virus dog domain domains drosophila e3_ubiquitin ecology edn3 egg_laying embryo end endoderm endothelin end_sequencing_profiling energy_balance epi epigenetics epithelial epstein_barr eqtl esp est estrogen evolution expression_analysis expression_qtl eye_development fgf fibroblast_growth_factor fungi gata_factor gene gene_colocalization gene_duplication gene_expression gene_family gene_loss genetic_stocks genome genotype geometry gfp glucokinase glucose half_life hearing heart herpesvirus histon_deacetylase histone_deacetylase hiv homosexuality hox hsv human immunity infection innate insulin insulin_receptor internet intestine irs ischemia jun kinase kit knowledge_base length liver localization lumen_formation map marek marek_disease marek_disease_virus mareks mdv meat_production meetings melanocyte melanoma membrane_protein memory meq mesoderm metagenomics methylation mhc microarray migration mitochondria model morphoenesis morphogenesis muscle nanotubes nematode neocortex network networks neural_crest neuron nfkb notch ocular oncogene orginize orientation ortholog oxidative_stress pancreas paralog pathfinding phylogenetics phylogeny pluripotent polymorphism pro_interaction promoter protein protein_promoter_interactions proteome p-value quantitative receptor recombination regulation retina review rho ribosome rules sbs_sequencing scaffold selectin selection semantic_web shear_stress skeletal_muscle snp software songbird spindle statistics stem_cells steroid stromal system_biology systems_biology t_cell t_cell_receptor teaching tegument termites tight_junctions tiling_array tor total_internal_reflection_microscopy transcription transcription_factories transcriptome transformation transgenic tree ubiquitin uk ul36 unfolded vaccine virus virus_gene virus_glycoprotein virus_latency virus_particle vision visualization wd_repeat wnt wnt5a xenopus yeast zebra_finch zebrafish CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We have automated this method to provide a means of streamlining the real-time PCR process, enabling analysis of experimental samples based upon their own reaction kinetics rather than those of artificial standards. akt b_catenin bmp book chemical cornea crystallin culture_retinal development editorial ephrin ethics eye eye_cone eye_development eye_rotation fgf fgf11 fgf22 fgf23 fgf4 fish frog gsk3 gsk3h h hedgehog histone_h3 laevis lens mapk mcb529ab1_class mcb580_class method microarray mindbomb modeling mouse nervous_system newt nicl nmda no_pdf notch_delta optic optic_chiasm optic_nerve optic_tectum patched pax-6 pi3k ras rat regeneration retina retinoic_acid review signaling six-3 smad tgf_beta thrombin to_print transgenic transplantation tropicalis tunel_assay tyrosine_kinase vision wnt xenopus zebrafish CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. New Latin Xenopūs, genus name : xeno- + Greek pous, foot; see octopus.
 

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