Toward an unbiased evolutionary platform for unraveling Xenopus developmental gene networks.

ABSTRACT: The availability of both the Xenopus tropicalis genome and the soon to be released Xenopus laevis genome provides a solid foundation for Xenopus developmental biologists. The Xenopus community has presently amassed expression data for ∼2,300 genes in the form of published images collected in the Xenbase, the principal Xenopus research database. A few of these genes have been examined in both X. tropicalis and X. laevis and the cross-species comparison has been proven invaluable for studying gene function. A recently published work has yielded developmental expression profiles for the majority of Xenopus genes across fourteen developmental stages spanning the blastula, gastrula, neurula, and the tail-bud. While this data was originally queried for global evolutionary and developmental princ

SUBMITTER: Beer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8128080 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature