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The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a very useful model organism for studying limb and spinal cord regeneration. The protocol by Khattak et al. (doi: 10.1038/nprot.2014.040) describes optimized axolotl husbandry, breeding, metamorphosis, transgenesis and tamoxifen-induced, Cre-mediated recombination.