We investigated the cornified spines in a sexually mature and male Xenopus laevis frog. The spines are located on the ventral forelimb skin. Aim was to identify the protein composition of the nuptial spines.
The goal of this study is to compare NGS-derived transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) from three tissues of L. boringii between two critical periods of the spine growth cycle, and to identify potential genes regulating the seasonal development of nuptial spines in L. boringii. We obtained 94,900 unigen...
