Xine Volume 6 supplement 1 - January 2006

Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to Xine, the source for Xenopus news and information. Here's what's happening...

A special request from Mike Klymkowsky

As part of a project on analyzing gene networks in the early embryo, we are trying to find all published papers using hormone-regulated proteins in Xenopus.

We can find a number (perhaps most), but sometime such experiments are hidden away. It would help quite a bit if authors who have used hormone-regulated proteins in Xenopus could send the reference(s) to Mike. klym@spot.colorado.edu

Michael W. Klymkowsky Professor, MCD Biology - UC Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0347 T: 303.492.8508 F:303.492.7744

Doing Biology http://spot.colorado.edu/~klym
Teaching biofundamentals http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB1111
Assessing learning http://bioliteracy.net

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static-xenbase/xine/xine.html

Links to useful sources of information for Xenopus (in no particular order)

general interest and utility
http://www.nih.gov/science/models/xenopus/ Trans NIH Xenopus initiative
http://www.xenbase.org/ - Peter Vize's Xenopus uber database
http://tropicalis.berkeley.edu/home/ - Harland lab tropicalis site
http://faculty.virginia.edu/xtropicalis/ - Grainger lab tropicalis site
http://tropmap.biology.uh.edu/ - Amy Sater's tropicalis genetic map site
https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/troplist - Information on the X. tropicalis listserver

genomic resources
http://xenopus.nibb.ac.jp/ - XDB at NIBB - Naoto Ueno's X. laevis EST database
http://xgc.nci.nih.gov/ - Xenopus gene collection
http://informatics.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/online/xt-fl-db.html - full length collection at the Gurdon Institute
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr4/Xentr4.home.html - JGI X. tropicalis genome site with browser and other info
http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/molecular_embryology/axeldb.htm AXELDB - Christof Niehrs' Xenopus database

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