(/ˈæksəlɒtəl/ ; from Classical Nahuatl: āxōlōtl [aːˈʃoːloːtɬ] ) (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a paedomorphic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander...

Ambystoma) are a group of advanced salamanders endemic to North America. The group has become famous due to the presence of the axolotl (A. mexicanum)...

The tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) is a species of mole salamander and one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in North America. These salamanders...

of thyroid hormones and in obligate neotenes such as the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), the tissues are seemingly unresponsive to the hormones. In other...

phenotypes, bodily asymmetry, and ultimately death. Ambystoma mexicanum, Ambystoma tigrinum, and Ambystoma dumerilii all display similar courtship behavior...

frog Lithobates clamitans. Full neoteny is seen in Ambystoma mexicanum and some populations of Ambystoma tigrinum, which remain in larval form throughout...

regenerate and formed scarred tissue instead. The axolotl salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, an organism with exceptional limb regenerative capabilities, likely...

"Initial characterization of the large genome of the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum using shotgun and laser capture chromosome sequencing". Scientific...

1980s with Xenopus laevis. Later, germline transgenic axolotls in Ambystoma mexicanum were produced in 2006 using a technique called I-SceI-mediated transgenesis...

limb. An important model organism for studying limb regeneration is Ambystoma mexicanum, a neotenic salamander with exceptional regenerative capabilities...