ArticleZoological letters2019
Calcium ions in the aquatic environment drive planarians to food.
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- Advances in ecotoxicological research using planarians: a comprehensive review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026Review
- Establishment of a new method to isolate viable x-ray-sensitive cells from planarian by fluorescence-activated cell sorting.Development, growth & differentiation · 2023Article
- Isolation of planarian viable cells using fluorescence-activated cell sorting for advancing single-cell transcriptome analysis.Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms · 2023Article
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- Regeneration of Planarian Auricles and Reestablishment of Chemotactic Ability.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- The pharyngeal nervous system orchestrates feeding behavior in planarians.Science advances · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundEven subtle changes in environmental factors can exert behavioral effects on creatures, which may alter interspecific interactions and eventually affect the ecosystem. However, how changes in environmental factors impact complex behaviors regulated by neural processes is largely unknown. The freshwater planarian
resultsHere we found that feeding behavior was suppressed when the concentration of ions in the breeding water was low, while other behaviors were unaffected, resulting in differences in population size. Notably, the decline in feeding behavior was reversed in an ion-concentration-dependent manner soon after the planarians were moved to ion-containing water, which suggests that ions in environmental water rapidly promote feeding behavior in planarians. Moreover, the concentration of ions in the environmental water affected the feeding behavior by modulating the sensitivity of the response to foods. Finally, we found that calcium ions in the aquatic environment were required for the feeding behavior, and exposure to higher levels of calcium ions enhanced the feeding behavior, showing that there was a good correlation between the concentration of calcium ions and the responsiveness of planarians to foods.
conclusionsEnvironmental calcium ions are indispensable for and potentiate the activity level of the feeding behavior of planarians. Our findings suggest that the ions in the aquatic environment profoundly impact the growth and survival of aquatic animals via modulating their neural activities and behaviors.
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