Early Development of Xenopus laevis: A Laboratory Manual

Xenopus embryos have been studied for years but this is a particularly exciting time for the field. Techniques have become available very recently that permit a previously impossible degree of manipulation of gene expression in intact embryos, as well as the ability to visualize the results of such manipulation. As a result, a sophisticated new understanding of Xenopus development has emerged, which ensures the species′ continued prominent position among the organisms favored for biological investigation.
This manual contains a comprehensive collection of protocols for the study of early development in Xenopusembryos. It is written by several of the field′s most prominent investigators in the light of the experience they gained as instructors in an intensive laboratory course taught at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1991. As a result it contains pointers, hints, and other technical knowledge not readily available elsewhere.