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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Dyn. 2009 Jul;238(7):1727–1743. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.21994

Table 1.

Sleeping Beauty transgenesis in Xenopus tropicalis and Xenopus laevis.

Founder ID
Number/Gender
F1 Trangenesis rate
# GFP-positive/ total #
F2 Trangenesis rate
# GFP-positive/ total #
Xenopus tropicalis (SB10 + pT2βGFP)
Transgenic P0 frogs
4M 48% (n = 185/383) 49% (n = 479/973)
5M 6% (n = 13/235) 51% (n = 258/502)
6M 1.2% (n = 17/1375) 49% (n = 710/1437)
7M 22% (n = 69/314) 51% (n = 514/1014)
8F 28% (n= 50/176) 48% (n= 261/547)
9F 1.6% (n = 25/1534) 51% (n = 1459/2878)
Non-transgenic P0 frogs
1M 0% (n = 0/172) NA
2M 0% (n = 0/259) NA
3M 0% (n = 0/1088) NA
10M 0% (n = 0/173) NA
11M 0% (n = 0/2170) NA
12M 0% (n = 0/508) NA
13F 0% (n = 0/1802) NA
14M 0% (n = 0/1873) NA
15F 0% (n = 0/479) NA
Xenopus tropicalis (SB11 + pT2βGFP)
♀622E 56.9% (n = 667/1173) ND
♂623F 19.5% (n = 81/415) ND
♂2262 9.7% (n = 273/2825) ND
♂2232 14.5% (n = 372/2562) ND
Xenopus laevis (SB10 + pTβGFP)
L2M 22% (n = 376/1733) ND
L3M 2.9% (n = 35/1211) ND
L4M 0% (n = 0/541) NA
L5M 0% (n = 0/46) NA
L6M 53% (n = 233/441) ND
L7F 27.5% (n = 22/80) ND

NA, not applicable; ND, not done.