The signs of a serious fungal infection include white growth that resembles cotton on the skin, as well as discolored eyes.

Ambient temperature affects the clawed frogs at the cellular level and therefore more directly than, for example, a lack of water or a change in food supply. Animal experiments with African clawed ...

A female African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, was housed at the Biological Resources Facility of North Carolina State University in a tank with two other females. The frog was ∼1.5 years old and ...

African clawed frogs used to be the best human pregnancy tests in the world. Doctors would inject a woman's urine into the back of a female frog; if positive, the frog would lay eggs. Frog or ...

More information: Ben J Evans et al, Rapid Sex Chromosome Turnover in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) and the Origins of New Sex Chromosomes, Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1093 ...