Anurans begin life as aquatic, gilled larvae, known as tadpoles, and undergo a dramatic metamorphosis to become air-breathing ...

But did this remarkable life cycle already exist in their early days? Frog fossils are rare, and even rarer are those of tadpoles, those young amphibians vulnerable to predators and unstable ...

I am especially interested in the molecular pathways underlying this process. My lab studies these questions in the developing visual system of the Xenopus laevis tadpole. Because these tadpoles are ...