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Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, has long been used as a research organism for studying embryonic development. The abnormal presence of RNA encoding the signaling molecule plakoglobin causes atypical signaling, giving rise to a two-headed tadpole.
Michael Klymkowsky, University of Colorado, Boulder
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