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Originally from central Mexico and now found worldwide, the axolotl is a prominent model organism in numerous fields of research.

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Fig. 1: Wild-type and white axolotls.

Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán

Fig. 2: Whole-tissue imaging and transgenesis allow visualization of multiple tissues in the limb without perturbing their morphology.

Ángela Muñoz Ovalle and Sandra Edwards-Jorquera

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Acknowledgements

I thank my laboratory colleagues, our collaborators, the salamander community and the animal caretakers of the Dresden colony, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for funding.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine 3, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán

  2. Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Centre Munich, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán

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Sandoval-Guzmán, T. The axolotl. Nat Methods 20, 1117–1119 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01961-5

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