Caption:
Axolotls with natural differences in pigmentation in Karen Echeverri's laboratory.
The
axolotl model for regeneration and aging research: a mini-review.
Finnson et al., "Transforming growth factor: signaling is essential for limb regeneration in
axolotls," PLoS ONE, vol.
(21) And the Mexican salamander, the
axolotl, has the greatest regenerative capacity of any vertebrate animal.
Axolotls have amazing healing powers, including the ability to regenerate lost limbs.
was his obsession is now an
axolotl, alien to his human life.
In the public HIE solution space,
Axolotl (OptumInsight) Elysium Exchange receives a performance score of 83.8, while Orion Concerto Exchange scores an 85.5.
Axolotls are salamanders that retained primitive characteristics of the first amphibians, the animals descended from fish that moved onto land about 385 million years ago.
Mr Hennessey added: "The decision to steal three
axolotls seems a rather strange one to me.
Sir David said he had "the best job going", adding: "Our thanks, of course, go to the spitting cobras,
axolotls, golden frogs, dwarf chameleons, those happy tortoises, and this [award] belongs not to me or to them but the production team."
Axolotls never fully metamorphose, retaining a plume of gills and tailfin that gives them the look of overgrown tadpoles.
Other amphibians featured include gravity-defying red-eyed tree frogs and
axolotls ( bizarre members of the salamander family that refuse to grow up.