# National Xenopus Resource Center

> **NIH NIH P40** · MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY · 2020 · $639,602

## Abstract

Project Summary – Core Component
This component outlines the various resources available to the community at the National Xenopus Resource
(NXR) and a detailed progress report of the previous five years. We outline the infrastructure of the facility,
describing the two main rooms housing X. laevis and X. tropicalis as well as the new room that was renovated
in 2017. We provide a summary of the maintenance, breeding and distribution of frogs to the community. In the
second aim we summarize the various resources and services available to the community, including
cryopreserved sperm and the custom transgenesis and mutant resources that serve to enhance research using
Xenopus through facilitating the creation of new frog lines that is often an impediment in the community because
of the inability of individual labs to breed lines in their own institution. In the third aim, we describe how the NXR
enhances novel Xenopus research through its offering of advanced training workshops, hosting of PI meetings
and its research facility service. All of these aspects are made possible by the various facilities available at the
Marine Biological Laboratory, including teaching labs, imaging core and on-site housing.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9936962
- **Project number:** 2P40OD010997-11
- **Recipient organization:** MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
- **Principal Investigator:** Marko E Horb
- **Activity code:** P40 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $639,602
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9936962

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9936962, National Xenopus Resource Center (2P40OD010997-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9936962. Licensed CC0.

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