Normal Table Of Xenopus Laevis Daudin

This book is the culmination of an international collaboration of zoologists to describe the embryology of Xenopus, including the origins of the organ systems, with the purpose of promoting the use of Xenopus as a model amphibian for embryological study.

This volume presents the first comprehensive treatment of the wide range of uses for Xenopus laevis oocytes and embryos in cell and molecular biology. Each chapter includes background information, experimental protocols, and suggested applications. An extensive array of techniques is featured. The authors are experienced researchers who have written chapters that will be useful to both experienced researchers and to those new to Xenopus as an experimental system. Full-color plates and diagrams enhance the educational value of this book, which provides a valuable permanent resource for all laboratories that use Xenopus. * Features approximately twenty full-color plates illustrating experimental techniques and results and depicting embryonic development * Provides complete coverage of Xenopus laevis as an experimental system including * Embryonic development, genetics, and laboratory care * Up-to-date protocols for experimental techniques using oocytes and embryos * General information listing recipes, suppliers, sequences, codons, and clones

Accompanying CD-ROM (in v. 2) has image collections which can be saved in PowerPoint or HTML.

This atlas offers stunning color electron scanning micrographs and exceptional light microscopy pictures of capillaries, vessels and diverse histomorphological tissues and organs of Xenopus laevis. The model organisms Xenopus laevis serves to study basic biological questions related to growth, differentiation, maturation, and regression of cells, tissues and organs. Xenopus and human genomes have long stretches of gene collinearity, and 79% of identified human disease genes have a verified ortholog in Xenopus. Thus, this atlas will be a powerful tool for anatomists, morphologists, histologists and physiologists interested in normal and pathologically altered organs and tissue; and to all researchers, who wish to learn more about the microvascular anatomy of this vertebrate model organism.