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    Development of xenopus resource centers : the national xenopus resource and the european xenopus resource center

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    2011-07
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    Pearl, Esther J.  Concept link
    Grainger, Robert M.  Concept link
    Guille, Matthew  Concept link
    Horb, Marko E.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5110
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    https://doi.org/10.1002/dvg.22013
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    Xenopus is an essential vertebrate model system for biomedical research that has contributed to important discoveries in many disciplines, including cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, developmental biology and neurobiology. However, unlike other model systems no central repository/stock center for Xenopus had been established until recently. Similar to mouse, zebrafish and fly communities, which have established stock centers, Xenopus researchers need to maintain and distribute rapidly growing numbers of inbred, mutant and transgenic frog strains, along with DNA and protein resources, and individual laboratories struggle to accomplish this efficiently. In the last five years two resource centers were founded to address this need: the European Xenopus Resource Center (EXRC) at the University of Portsmouth in England, and the National Xenopus Resource (NXR) at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA, USA. These two centers work together to provide resources and support to the Xenopus research community. The EXRC and NXR serve as stock centers and acquire, produce, maintain and distribute mutant, inbred and transgenic X. laevis and X. tropicalis lines. Independently, the EXRC is a repository for Xenopus cDNAs, fosmids and antibodies; it also provides oocytes and wild type frogs within the UK. The NXR will complement these services by providing research training and promoting intellectual interchange through hosting minicourses and workshops and offering space for researchers to perform short-term projects at the MBL. Together the EXRC and NXR will enable researchers to improve productivity by providing resources and expertise to all levels, from graduate students to experienced PIs. These two centers will also enable investigators that use other animal systems to take advantage of Xenopus’ unique experimental features to complement their studies.
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    Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of John Wiley & Sons for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in genesis 50 (2012): 155–163, doi:10.1002/dvg.22013.
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    Preprint: Pearl, Esther J., Grainger, Robert M., Guille, Matthew, Horb, Marko E., "Development of xenopus resource centers : the national xenopus resource and the european xenopus resource center", 2011-07, https://doi.org/10.1002/dvg.22013, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5110
     

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