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ArticleBMC biology2016

The tapeworm's elusive antero-posterior polarity.

Alessandro Minelli

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Article in BMC biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Alessandro MinelliDepartment of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58 B, I 35131, Padova, Italy. alessandro.minelli@unipd.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because of their sessile lifestyle and the lack of the sensory and feeding structures usually associated with the cephalic end, fixing the antero-posterior (AP) polarity of tapeworms is somewhat equivocal and has been a matter of century-long debates. Koziol et al. offer the first molecular evidence finally fixing the scolex as the animal's anterior pole.

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