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Xenopus tropicalis

Taxonomy ID: 8364 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid8364)
current name
Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864)
basionym:
Silurana tropicalis Gray, 1864
homotypic synonym:
Xenopus (Silurana) tropicalis
Xenopus laevis tropicalis
Genbank common name: tropical clawed frog
NCBI BLAST name: frogs & toads
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 2 (Vertebrate Mitochondrial)
Other names:
common name(s) western clawed frog
Lineage( full )
cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Deuterostomia; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Gnathostomata; Teleostomi; Euteleostomi; Sarcopterygii; Dipnotetrapodomorpha; Tetrapoda; Amphibia; Batrachia; Anura; Pipoidea; Pipidae; Xenopodinae; Xenopus; Silurana
   Entrez records   
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Nucleotide 1,646,900
Protein 124,290
Structure 63
Popset 49
GEO Datasets 2,484
PubMed Central 6,148
Gene 44,179
HomoloGene 14,412
SRA Experiments 4,445
Protein Clusters 12
Identical Protein Groups 74,683
BioProject 206
BioSample 3,792
Assembly 5
PubChem BioAssay 1
Taxonomy 1

Comments and References:

image:Xenopus tropicalis
Cannatella & Trueb (1988)
Cannatella,D.C and Trueb,L. "Evolution of Pipoid Frogs: Intergeneric Relationships of the Aquatic Frog Family Pipidae (Anura)" Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 94 (1): 1-38 (1988) [Xenopus tropicalis and epitropicalis transferred to Silurana]
de Sa and Hillis (1990)
de Sa, R.O. and D.M. Hillis (1990). Phylogenetic relationships of the pipid frogs Xenopus and Silurana: an integration of ribosomal DNA and morphology. Mol. Biol. Evol. 7 (4): 365-376. The genus Silurana was resurrected by Cannatella and Trueb (1988) to accomodate the species in the Xenopus tropicalis group. Cannatella and Trueb (1988) believed the members of the Xenopus tropicalis group were more closely related to Hymenochirus, Pipa, and Pseudhymenochirus than they were to to other species of Xenopus. de Sa and Hillis (1990) refuted this phylogenetic placement of the Xenopus tropicalis group; instead, they found that Xenopus tropicalis and Xenopus epitropicalis were more closely related to other Xenopus than to Hymenochirus, Pipa, and Pseudhymenochirus. de Sa and Hillis also noted that Xenopus tropicalis and X. epitropicalis are sister-species, forming a monophyletic group which can be recognized as the genus Silurana. Silurana and Xenopus are recognized as sister-taxa, forming the subfamily Xenopodinae. Hymenochirus, Pipa, and Pseudhymenochirus remain in the subfamily Pipinae. The Xenopodinae and Pipinae constitute the Pipidae.
Cannatella & De Sa (1993)
Cannatella,D.C. and de Sa,R. "Xenopus laevis as a model organism." Systematic Biology 42 (4) 476-507 (1993)
Silurana
Silurana is sometimes represented as a genus separate from Xenopus -- we list it as a subgenus of Xenopus, following current usage in the literature. Both taxonomic schemes reflect the same phylogenetic tree, the only difference is in the assignment of the genus rank and the preferred scientific name of the Silurana species.

Genome Information

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External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)

LinkOut Subject LinkOut Provider
Xenopus tropicalis taxonomy/phylogenetic AmphibiaWeb
Silurana tropicalis Gray, 1864 taxonomy/phylogenetic Amphibian Species of the World
2 records from this provider taxonomy/phylogenetic Arctos Specimen Database
DNA barcoding : Silurana tropicalis taxonomy/phylogenetic Barcodes of Life
Silurana tropicalis Gray, 1864 taxonomy/phylogenetic Encyclopedia of life
GOLD: 3 Organisms organism-specific Genomes On Line Database
Related Immune Epitope Information gene/protein/disease-specific Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource
2507525015: Xenopus tropicalis organism-specific Integrated Microbial Genomes
X. tropicalis (U.Va.) taxonomy/phylogenetic NCBI taxonomy bookmarks
clawed frog (BAC proposal) taxonomy/phylogenetic NHGRI genome proposal white papers
OMA taxonomy/phylogenetic OMA Browser: Orthologous MAtrix
Silurana tropicalis taxonomy/phylogenetic TreeBase
WebScipio: Xenopus tropicalis organism-specific WebScipio - eukaryotic gene identification
diArk: Xenopus tropicalis organism-specific diArk - a resource for eukaryotic genome research
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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.


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