Example sentences for: laevis

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  • Adult female Xenopus laevis were anesthetized with tricaine methane sulfonate (MS-222, Sigma Chemical Co).

  • Experiments with X. laevis BLM demonstrates its requirement in a reconstituted DNA replication system [ 6].

  • Four EST clones from Xenopus laevis were identified through blast search against the HsCOP1 protein sequence.

  • Indeed, the expression of dominant negative alleles that can potentially disrupt multiple members of a gene family has been used extensively in Xenopus laevis and has, for example, helped elucidate the action of fibroblast growth factors during mesoderm formation [ 19 ] . Such alleles are particularly useful when a null allele in the same gene causes a disruptive phenotype prior to the stage of development of interest.

  • Furthermore, a study of 17 pairs of duplicated genes in the tetraploid frog Xenopus laevis has shown that both copies were subject to purifying selection [ 9], contrary to the notion of neutrality of one of the copies [ 1].


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