The Xenopus animal cap transcriptome: building a mucociliary epithelium.. The Xenopus animal cap transcriptome: building a mucociliary epithelium.

Here we investigate dynamics of the RNA landscape during formation of the Xenopus tropicalis larval epidermis. To obtain RNA expression data, we used ectodermal explants (Animal Caps), which differentiate autonomously into a ciliated epidermis, highly related to the one in human airways. Animal caps were harvested at the gastrula neurula and tailbud stage. Overall design: Transcriptomic analysis of 3 developmental stages of embryonic epidermis development in Xenopus tropicalis. We looked at gene´s expression and splicing isoforms expression