Ambystoma mexicanum

Eisthen H.L., Sengelaub D., Schroeder D. and Alberts J. (1994). Anatomy and forebrain projections of the olfactory and vomeronasal organs in Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum). Brain Behav Evol 44, 108-124. 

Scadding, S.R. 1990. Effects of tributyltin oxide on the skeletal structures of developing and regenerating limbs of axolotyl larvae, Ambystoma mexicanum. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 45 574-581. 

Koniski, A., and Cohen, N., Mitogen-activated axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) spleno-cytes produce a cytokine that promotes growth of homologous lymphoblasts, Dev. Comp. Immunol., 18, 239, 1994. 

Pleurodeles waltl and Ambystoma mexicanum (axolotl), bred in many laboratories, were chosen because of the abundance of mucins which surround their eggs. The first analyses led to the isolation of Lewis and Lewis antigenic determinants, which are known to be related to human tumor-associated antigens. For these reasons, the jelly coats of amphibian eggs could represent a valuable model to examine 0-linked carbohydrate structures during evolution, associated with a possible function involving specific markers for the fertilization process. 

Fig. 2. Oligosaccharide-alditols released from the jelly coat of Ambystoma mexicanum [25].

Nevertheless, the glycans observed in the other amphibian species represent novel sequences which reflect a natural polymorphism. The mucin of Ambystoma mexicanum was characterized by the presence of new sequences such as Gal(al-4)[Fuc(al-... 

Park, D., McGuire, J. M., Majchizak, A. L., Ziobro, J. M., and Eisthen, H. L., 2004, Discriminadon of conspecific sex and reproductive condition using chemical cues in axolotls Ambystoma mexicanum), J. Comp. Physiol. A., in press. 

Shaffer, H. B., 1993, Phylogenetics of model organisms The laboratory axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, Syst. Biol. 42 508-522. 

Ambysioma, 276, 278, 280 Ambystoma mexicanum, 106 Ambystoma opacum, 107 Ambystoma talpoideum, 107 Anopheles macuMpennis, 109 Artemia salina, 112, 113 Ascaphus truei, 106 Ascaris, 344... 

Xenopus laevis, and a urodele, Ambystoma mexicanum. Dev. Biol. 98,250-254. 

Gillespie, R. (1983) The distribution of small ions during the early development of Xenopus laevis md Ambystoma mexicanum embryos. J. Physiol. 344,359-377. 

In the lungs of the salamanders, Cynops pyrrho-gaster and Ambystoma mexicanum, Adriaensen et al. (1993) described NOS-like immunoreactivity in dispersed nerve cells in a plexus composed of thick nerve bundles and in a delicate nerve netwerk made up of fine varicose nerve fibres. There was evidence that at least part of these varicose fibres originated from NOS-containing nerve cells in intrapulmonary ganglia. 

Sellman, S. (1946) Some experiments on the determination of the larval teeth in Ambystoma mexicanum , Odontologisk Tidskrift, 54, 1-128. 

The pattern of amphibian pigmentation is caused by the interaction of epidermis (which acts as an inductor) with tissue of the neural crest. The neural crest produces melanoblasts which migrate subepidermally under the influence of the inductor. There is a mutation (d) in Ambystoma mexicanum which, when homozygous, produces animals that are colorless (the so called white race of axolotl). 

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