Single cell RNA-seq of of human (Homo sapiens), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis) iPSC and iPSC-derived NPC cell lines

Single cell RNA-seq samples from 3 species across a differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells to neural progenitor cells were generated to study gene expression evolution. Briefly, previously generated urinary stem cell derived iPSCs of 3 human (Homo sapiens) individuals (3 clones), 1 gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) individual (2 clones) and fibroblast derived cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis) iPSCs of 2 individuals (4 clones) (Geuder et al. 2021) were differentiated to neural progenitor cells via dual-SMAD inhibition as three-dimensional aggregation culture (Chambers et al. 2009; Ohnuki et al. 2014). Single cell RNA-seq libraries from differentiation days 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 were generated using mcSCRB-seq protocol (Bagnoli et al. 2018).