Tag Archive for 'Tadpole'

Life reconstruction of tadpoles and adults of Notobatrachus degiustoi. Image credit: Gabriel Lio.

161-Million-Year-Old Fossil is the Oldest Known Tadpole

Oct 31, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered the well-preserved fossilized remains of a tadpole of the early anuran species Notobatrachus degiustoi at the locality...

Transcardial injection of green algae or cyanobacteria in Xenopus laevis tadpoles distributed these photosynthetic microorganisms throughout the CNS causing a light exposure-timed increase of the oxygen concentration upon illumination of the brain; during a general, brain-wide extinction of neuronal activity by sub-atmospheric oxygen levels, green algae, and cyanobacteria were able to reversibly and repetitively reinitiate the spike activity upon illumination, thereby demonstrating the capacity of these microorganisms to rescue brain activity by photosynthetic oxygen. Image credit: Özugur et al., doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103158.

Study: Photosynthesizing Microorganisms Can Produce Oxygen in Brain Blood Vessels of Tadpoles

Oct 15, 2021 by News Staff

Biologists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich have developed a method that allows tadpoles of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) to ‘breathe’...

African Tadpoles Offer Clues for Human Healing

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...