ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Mechanics dictate where and how freshwater planarians fission.
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- Identification of an innexin required for termination of the asexual state in planarian reproductive switching.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- How neurobehavior and brain development in alternative whole-organism models can contribute to prediction of developmental neurotoxicity.Neurotoxicology · 2024Review
- The effect of stress on rates of asexual reproduction in an invasive planarian.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2023Article
- The known, unknown, and unknown unknowns of cell-cell communication in planarian regeneration.Zoological research · 2023Review
- Head removal enhances planarian electrotaxis.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- A pan-metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Differences in neurotoxic outcomes of organophosphorus pesticides revealedFrontiers in toxicology · 2022Article
- Hox genes regulate asexual reproductive behavior and tissue segmentation in adult animals.Nature communications · 2021Article
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- Alternative Animal Models of Aging Research.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Review
- Four-Dimensional Characterization of themSphere · 2020Article
- Dugesia japonica is the best suited of three planarian species for high-throughput toxicology screening.Chemosphere · 2020Article
- Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Planaria as a model of body-axis specification in ancestral eumetazoa.Communicative & integrative biology · 2020Article
- Unexpected encounter of the parasitic kind.World journal of stem cells · 2019Review
- What makes flatworms go to pieces.Nature · 2019Article
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- Comparative Analysis of Zebrafish and Planarian Model Systems for Developmental Neurotoxicity Screens Using an 87-Compound Library.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2019Article
- Planarian cholinesterase: molecular and functional characterization of an evolutionarily ancient enzyme to study organophosphorus pesticide toxicity.Archives of toxicology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Asexual freshwater planarians reproduce by tearing themselves into two pieces by a process called binary fission. The resulting head and tail pieces regenerate within about a week, forming two new worms. Understanding this process of ripping oneself into two parts poses a challenging biomechanical problem. Because planarians stop "doing it" at the slightest disturbance, this remained a centuries-old puzzle. We focus on
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