Xenopus (African clawed frog) is a model organism building our knowledge of vertebrate embryology and development, basic cell and molecular biology, genomics, neurobiology, toxicology and human disease.  Researchers work with frogs to investigate how internal mechanisms affect embryonic development, how they adapt to environmental stress, and the causes of specific…

Titi monkeys are one of the few nonhuman primate models that develop social attachment. Therefore, they are involved in the study of neurotransmitters and what they contribute to the biology of social attachment.  Recently, the monkeys were involved in research to develop a new technique to visualize oxytocin receptors in…