Crossword-Solution: XENOPUS
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| AFRICAN toad, clawed | 1 answer |
| African frog | 1 answer |
| Clawed toad of South American origin | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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greedy person
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Sentences with XENOPUS (5)
The recent addition of a third genus of Aglossa, _Hymenochirus_ (24) from tropical Africa, combining characters of _Pipa_ and _Xenopus_, has removed every doubt as to the real affinity which connects these genera.
None of the Stegocephalia appears to have been provided with claws, but some living batrachians (_Onychodactylus, Xenopus, Hymenochirus_) have the tips of some or all of the digits protected by a claw-like horny sheath.
The pericardium (lightly shaded) extends as far as the bifurcation of the synangium.] In all larval forms, in the Caudata, and in a few of the Ecaudata (_Xenopus_, for instance), the epidermis becomes modified in relation with the termination of sensory nerves, and gives rise to organs of the same nature as those of the lateral line of fishes.
Upper left, late tadpole of _Xenopus laevis_; lower left, same just after metamorphosis; upper right, diagram of general components of primitive Anuran vertebra.
Ribs, present as separate cartilages associated with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th vertebrae in the larvae of _Xenopus_ and _Bombinator_, fuse with lateral processes (diapophyses) of the neural arches at metamorphosis, but in _Leiopelma_ and _Ascaphus_ the ribs remain freely articulated in the adult.
Quotes with XENOPUS (2)
As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible.