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UK
/ˈæksəlˌɒtəl/
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NOUN
- larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing
How To Use axolotl In A Sentence
- The curious "axolotl," which we shall meet with in Mexico, belongs to a closely allied genus. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
- The axolotl is the champion of vertebrate regeneration, with the ability to replace whole limbs and even parts of its central nervous system," says Edward Scott, Ph. D., principal investigator for the grant and director of the McKnight Brain Institute's program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. GEN News Highlights
- But however the pluripotency–versus–partial-reprogramming debate turns out, her team's development of a genetically modified axolotl as a model organism for regenerative research is significant.
- The axolotl is the champion of vertebrate regeneration, with the ability to replace whole limbs and even parts of its central nervous system," Scott said. THE MEDICAL NEWS
- It provides numerous links to developmental biology research resources, including dynamic development, axolotl colony, genetic and molecular data for drosophila, mouse embryo and cancer genome etc.
- The exemplar of salamander paedomorphosis is the Mexican axolotl.
- A number of salamanders, such as the North American ‘mudpuppy’ and the Mexican axolotl, develop legs but retain their larval gills and stay in the water throughout their lifetimes.
- Or invent an anxious axolotl whose gross debilitating mottle ... With apologies to everyone who's read this doggerel before
- Among the world's varied creatures, a Mexican salamander called the axolotl appears best at regrowing whole limbs lost to injury. Medlogs - Recent stories
- Yet in captivity by reducing the quantity of water in which it is placed the young Axolotl can be forced to breathe air, and then it undergoes complete metamorphosis to the abranchiate condition. Hormones and Heredity