Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the most widely studied ...
Researchers at McMaster University discovered eight different sex chromosomes in 11 species of African clawed frogs, revealing surprising genetic diversity. The study found these chromosomes in genome ...
African clawed frogs used to be the best human pregnancy tests in the world. Doctors would inject a woman's urine into the back of a female frog; if positive, the frog would lay eggs. Frog or ...
Prior to conventional pregnancy tests being widely available, would-be parents often relied on the help of the African clawed frog to confirm the good news. In the first half of the 20th Century ...