Zaslo discovered antimicrobial peptides called magainins in this organism, which enable them to close wounds withoutinfection or inflflammation.
Zaslo discovered antimicrobial peptides called magainins in this organism, which enable them to close wounds withoutinfection or inflflammation. Experiments in which this organism's eye was excised, rotated 180 degrees, and then placed back in,resulting in it chasing food sources in exactly the wrong direction, led Roger Sperry to propose the chemoafinity hypothesis.P.D. Nieuwkoop used an animal cap assay to determine that cells in the vegetal hemisphere of this organism induced the formationof the mesoderm, leading to the discovery shortly thereaftfter of the TGF-beta family. This organism's females ovulatedwithin hours of being injected with hCG-rich urine, leading Lancelot Hogben to develop his pregnancy test. This organism'sutility is limited by its long generation time and pseudotetraploidy, which is why the tropicalis species is sometimes used instead.This animal is attractive to researchers because of its large embryos. For 10 points, name this popular developmentalmodel organism, a frog.
Zaslo discovered antimicrobial peptides called magainins in this organism, which enable them to close wounds withoutinfection or inflflammation.
Xenopus laevis [or X. laevis; or African clawed frog]