• Frog and Amphibian Information
• Fish Information
• Other organisms
• Interesting and Important Protein Families

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Frogs

• Natural History of the Upland Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis)
  
  
• Molecular Tools/ Reagent Sources/Protocols
  
  
  • Protocol source
    • Transgenic trouble shooting and Q and A from Enrique Amaya
  • Reagent sources
    • Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank
    • More antibody resources
    • cDNA libraries listed at the XMMR
    • RT-PCR primers
      • From the DeRobertis Lab
      • From the Moon Lab
      • From the XMMR
  • Frog suppliers/Frog care
    • Xenopus Express Catalog and HomePage-Information on frog disease, and many other resources
    • African Clawed Frog Care Sheet
    • Infoseek Model Organisms: Xenopus
  
  
• Genes and Proteins
  
  
  • Expression patterns
    • AXelDB (Niehrs lab) - a database of the expression patterns of genes from their in situ screen of maternal transcripts
    • Xenopus Molecular Marker Resource - updated all the time - includes marker information (with pictures), expression vector maps, protocols, and more.
    • DeRobertis lab: in situ expression patterns (FrzB, gsc, chordin, cerberus, xnot).
  • Plasmid maps and sequences for probes and vectors.
    • XMMR expression vectors
    • Moon lab cDNA probes and expression constructs and expression vectors and promoter constructs (not only maps for wnts and hhs, there are also maps and information for many general markers).
    • Klymkowski Lab Plasmid Map Page
    • Additional plasmid map and sequence information
    • Xenopus codon usage from the Japanese DNA Information and Stock Center or Harvard
  • Search for Xenopus proteins in PIR
  • Search Xenopus subset of Genbank-be sure to select "refine entry in Entrez"
  • Information about Xenopus transcription factors from the TRANSFAC database
    
    
• Frog Pictures and Movies
  
  
  • Nieuwkoop and Faber Xenopus stages from the XMMR
  • Virtual frog dissection kit
  • 3D Frog Movies
    

• General Amphibian Information/Evolution
  
  
  • URODELES/bionet.organisms.urodeles Newsgroup Archive
  • What IS the difference between frogs and toads?
  • Illinois Acadamy of Science Herpetology Links
  • Living Amphibia: Evolution (or more specifically the pipidae) and Frog Evolution
  • UCB Amphibian Page-Life history, morphology and evolution
  • Indiana University Axolotl Page
  • Scientific American article on headless frog embryos: "Off with its head"
  • North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations (NARCAM)
    

• Other Xenopus Labs:
  
  
  • Amaya Lab- with transgenic troubleshooting guide
  • DeRobertis lab - gene expression patterns
  • Hanken lab - frog evolution, including work on E. coqui
  • King Lab - homeodomain and forkhead genes
  • Klymkowsky Lab - check out their current model for the WNT signalling pathway
  • Moon Lab - wnts, many plasmid maps
  • Richter Xenopus neural induction lab - now with photos of HGF
    receptor expression pattern and HGF.
  • Rupp Xenopus Myogenesis lab
  • Sokol Lab Page
    
    
• Just For Fun:
  
  
  • Dorita's Frogland
  • Froggy Home Page
  • The Lily Pad
    

Fish

• General Fish Information
  
  
  • U. of South Carolina Zebrafish Information Server
  • U. Oregon Fish Net
  • ZBRAFISH/bionet.organisms.zebrafish Newsgroup Archive
  • Infoseek: Model Organisms: Zebrafish
  • www virtual library: Fish
  • Medakafish Home Page
  • Development Zebrafish Issue
  • Illinois Acadamy of Science Ichthyology Links
    
    
• Molecular Tools/ Reagents/ Protocols
  
  
  • Protocol sources
    • Zebrafish methods
    • The Zebrafish Book
  • Reagent sources
    • Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank
    • More antibody resources
    • Monoclonal antibodies available from the University of Oregon
    • Zebrafish cDNA and genomic librarie
  
  
• Fish Genetics
  
  
  • Tübingen mutant allele database and stockcenter
  • University of Oregon mutant allele database
  • HGMP-RC FUGU Project
  • Medaka mutant strains
    
    
• Genes and Proteins
  
  
  • Zebrafish Codon Usage from the Japanese DNA Information and Stock Center
  • Moon lab database of cDNA probes and expression constructs
  • More plasmid maps and sequence information
  • Search zebrafish subset of Genbank-be sure to select "refine entry in Entrez"
  • Zebrafish Transcription Factors listed in the TRANSFAC database
    
    
• Fish Pictures and Movies
  
  
  • How to stage zebrafish embryos
  • Staged Zebrafish Embryo Drawings
  • Driever lab zebrafish anatomy atlas
  • Myers lab zebrafish development movies including their early development movie (really cool)
  • FishScope - featuring neural tube and neural crest dynamics in action, as well as developmental landmarks
  • Continuously Refreshing FishCam
    
    
• Other Danio Labs
  
  
  • Nusslein-Volhard Lab
  • Driever Lab Zebrafish Server
  • Moon Lab
  • Myers Lab (formation of the nervous system using advanced imaging techniques).
  • Gilbert Lab

   

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