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A Method for Generating Transgenic Frog Embryos

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Molecular Embryology

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Acknowledgments

We thank Jennifer Taylor and Roz Friday for comments on the manuscript. We also thank Odile Bronchain, who helped modify the protocol for Xenopus tropicalis. Enrique Amaya was a Welcome Trust senior research fellow. This work was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

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  1. The Healing Foundation Centre, Michael Smith Building, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Shoko Ishibashi & Enrique Amaya

  2. Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Kristen L. Kroll

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  1. Department of Craniofacial Development, King's College London, London, UK

    Paul T. Sharpe

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Ishibashi, S., Kroll, K.L., Amaya, E. (2008). A Method for Generating Transgenic Frog Embryos. In: Sharpe, P.T., Mason, I. (eds) Molecular Embryology. METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY™, vol 461. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-483-8_31

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