<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Marko,<div><br><div>Thank you for informing us.</div><div><br></div><div>While this is bad news for the community, I am not too much afraid about the impact on laevis and tropicalis, but I was wondering about borealis.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you know if borealis will still be available anywhere after Nasco closes animal sales?</div><div>I do not plan on hosting borealis in the near future but hoped to still have a borealis option for future research plans...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br>Romain <br><div dir="ltr">--<div>Romain Gibeaux, PhD</div><div>CNRS researcher</div><div>TIPs Team</div><div>Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes</div><div>University of Rennes 1</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Le 8 févr. 2021 à 20:08, National Xenopus Resource <xenopus@mbl.edu> a écrit :<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Xenopus community<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Nasco has informed us that they will be closing down their live animal sales as of March 31, 2021. They still have frogs for sale and you can contact them to place an order and they are willing to work with you on the ship date.
They do not know yet whether they will continue selling their frog brittle. After March 31 there will be two options for purchase of wild type Xenopus frogs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xenopus 1 (<a href="http://www.xenopus1.com/Xenopus1/HOME.html">http://www.xenopus1.com/Xenopus1/HOME.html</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Xenopus Express (<a href="https://www.xenopus.com/">https://www.xenopus.com/</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Xenopus 1 does ship internationally. I have spoken with both those companies and they are excited to work with any new customers and have said they have capacity to cover the additional animals when Nasco closes. Please reach
out to each company to ask about their frogs and their availability. Xenopus 1 has wild caught and lab bred frogs, while Xenopus Express has lab bred frogs. Both companies also sell food pellets for Xenopus.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> The NXR stocks mainly transgenic and inbred and mutant frogs, but we do have some wild type frogs. Likewise, the EXRC has some wild type frogs for sale, but we do not have the capacity to meet all demand. Moving forward, I would
be glad to hear from people about how this might impact their use of Xenopus and whether they have concerns about this. The EXRC and NXR are looking into whether there is a need for further expansion if there are issues with obtaining frogs in the near future.
But we really won’t know unless the community informs us. We ask you all to let me and Matt Guille know of your concerns with this new development. Matt and I will work closely together to ensure that this does not have a significant impact on the Xenopus
community.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marko Horb<o:p></o:p></p>
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Marko Horb, Ph.D. |Director, National <i>Xenopus</i> Resource (NXR) |Senior Scientist, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering<br>
Marine Biological Laboratory | 7 MBL Street | Woods Hole, MA 02543</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Email: </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:mhorb@mbl.edu"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">mhorb@mbl.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">|
Office: 508-289-7627 | Lab: 508-289-7370 | Cell: 508-564-3764</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><i><span style="color:black">If the NXR contributed to your work please acknowledge us in your publications and talks.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Cite us in Materials and Methods as National Xenopus Resource RRID:SCR_013731 at the Marine Biological Laboratory and in the Acknowledgements you can just mention the National Xenopus Resource.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Cite us in your references: </span>
</i></b><b><i>Horb M. et. al. (2019). Xenopus resources: transgenic, inbred and mutant animals, training opportunities, and web-based support. Front Physiol. 10:387. PMCID: PMC6497014</i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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