Diel activity and thermoregulatory behavior of a fully aquatic frog: Xenopus laevis

Hydrobiologia ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Elizabeth Casterlin ◽  
William Wallace Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Diel Activity ◽  
Thermoregulatory Behavior

Androgen-induced plasticity at a “vocal” neuromuscular synapse

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 32-33
Author(s):  
Darcy B. Kelley ◽  
Martha L. Tobias ◽  
Mark Ellisman
Keyword(s):  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Motor Neurons ◽  
Sexual Differentiation ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Neuromuscular Synapse ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Intracellular Protein ◽  
Developmental Program ◽  
Androgen Action ◽  
Clawed Frog

Brain and muscle are sexually differentiated tissues in which masculinization is controlled by the secretion of androgens from the testes. Sensitivity to androgen is conferred by the expression of an intracellular protein, the androgen receptor. A central problem of sexual differentiation is thus to understand the cellular and molecular basis of androgen action. We do not understand how hormone occupancy of a receptor translates into an alteration in the developmental program of the target cell. Our studies on sexual differentiation of brain and muscle in Xenopus laevis are designed to explore the molecular basis of androgen induced sexual differentiation by examining how this hormone controls the masculinization of brain and muscle targets.Our approach to this problem has focused on a highly androgen sensitive, sexually dimorphic neuromuscular system: laryngeal muscles and motor neurons of the clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. We have been studying sex differences at a synapse, the laryngeal neuromuscular junction, which mediates sexually dimorphic vocal behavior in Xenopus laevis frogs.

THE EFFECT OF THE SKIN SECRETION OF XENOPUS LAEVIS ON ITS DERMAL MELANOPHORES

1956 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. J. Burgers ◽  
G. J. van Oordt
Keyword(s):  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Skin Secretion
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