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Xenopus tropicalis (tropical clawed frog) Western clawed frog (Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis) is an important model organism for studies in cell and developmental biology. Lineage: Eukaryota[15557]; Metazoa[7782]; Chordata[3579]; Craniata[3544]; Vertebrata[3544]; Euteleostomi[3500]; Amphibia[113]; Batrachia[109]; Anura[52]; Pipoidea[7]; Pipidae[6]; Xenopodinae[3]; Xenopus[3]; Silurana[1]; Xenopus tropicalis[1]

The Western clawed frog, Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis, is native to Africa and is an important model organism for the study of developmental genetics and vertebrate biology. In contrast to the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) which has a tetraploid genome and was used in the early years of embryological research, the Western clawed More...frog has a diploid genome which simplifies genetic studies. Less...

Summary Sequence data:  genome assemblies: 2; sequence reads: 4  (See  Genome Assembly and Annotation report) Statistics:  median total length (Mb): 1468.43  median protein count: 45099  median GC%: 40.5316 NCBI Annotation Release:  104 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) The genome of the Western clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis. Hellsten U, et al. Science 2010 Apr 30 Genetic and genomic tools for Xenopus research: The NIH Xenopus initiative. Klein SL, et al. Dev Dyn 2002 Dec Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. Strausberg RL, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 Dec 24  Representative (genome information for reference and representative genomes) Reference genome:   Xenopus tropicalis UCB_Xtro_10.0 Submitter: University of California, Berkeley Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene Chr 1 NC_030677.2 CM004443.2 217.47 39.9 5,941 - 19 629 3,407 69 Chr 2 NC_030678.2 CM004444.2 181.04 40.2 5,363 95 173 879 3,529 84 Chr 3 NC_030679.2 CM004445.2 153.87 40.6 5,565 - 1,242 479 4,219 40 Chr 4 NC_030680.2 CM004446.2 153.96 40.8 4,773 - 193 571 2,901 37 Chr 5 NC_030681.2 CM004447.2 164.03 40.4 4,081 161 197 398 2,677 60 Chr 6 NC_030682.2 CM004448.2 154.49 40.5 3,744 69 134 368 2,298 52 Chr 7 NC_030683.2 CM004449.2 133.57 40.9 4,484 46 30 454 2,564 58 Chr 8 NC_030684.2 CM004450.2 147.24 41.5 5,403 22 197 1,013 3,675 94 Chr 9 NC_030685.2 CM004451.2 91.22 41.8 3,375 19 12 259 2,052 57 Chr 10 NC_030686.2 CM004452.2 52.43 43.9 2,280 51 169 162 1,451 18 MT NC_006839.1 - 0.02 42.5 13 2 22 - 37 - Un - . - 1.96 45.4 77 - - 6 78 2 Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer External Resources BAC/PAC Resources Center (BPRC) DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Grainger X. tropicalis site Gurdon Institute Xenopus tropicalis Full-Length Database Harland X. tropicalis site Metazome Trans-NIH Xenopus Initiative Xenbase Xenopus Gene Collection Xine