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The Amphibian Research Laboratory was created in October 2004 to specifically address questions related to speciation genetics and to provide the Xenopus community with a resource for multispecies work in developmental, immunological, and evolutionary biology. Currently we maintain a large colony of frogs composed of 13 taxa excluding hybrids. Most of the colony come from field collected donations of Professor Richard Tinsley (The University of Bristol, UK) and the University of Geneva and we have made efforts to preserve these genetic stocks. The colony is housed in the environmentally controlled UTA Aquatic Animal Facility and frogs are kept in fish stock tanks, static water plastic containers, or in tanks linked on a flow through system. Frogs are fed pellet food from Xenopus Express and live under a 12:12 photoperiod. All conditions are supervised and approved under the UTA Animal Care Committee (IACUC Protocol No. A05.001). Please contact us if you are interested in obtaining frogs for research purposes or if you are interested in donating frogs to the colony. |
