The findings published in Science are based on the DNA of a single African clawed frog whose DNA was broken down into small pieces that were replicated many, many times, then sent to laboratories around the world for analysis. The project sprang from a meeting of researchers in Walnut Creek, Calif., in 2002, when the… [Read More]

Scientists have now done for frogs what they’ve already done for humans, honeybees, fruit flies, chickens, chimpanzees, rats and pufferfish – sequenced their genome. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, are publishing the genome of the African clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) in Friday’s edition of the… [Read More]

Unless your father was a prince with a shady past, you probably haven’t thought much about how related you are to a frog lately. But it turns out that about 80 percent of the genes known to cause diseases in humans have counterparts in the genome of Xenopus tropicalis—the western clawed frog native to sub-Saharan… [Read More]