We demonstrate the complex cytoarchitecture of the planarian brain, despite the simple superficiality of the morphology. |
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We extracted poly-A tailed messenger RNA separately from the planarian head portion and the body portions. |
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Here we describe trans-splicing in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, a free-living member of the phylum Platyhelminthes. |
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In planarian worms, Pax6 orthologs are expressed in developing eyes, but do not appear to be required for eye development. |
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Cut a planarian flatworm in two, and the tail end regenerates a head while the head end regrows a tail. |
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In planarian regeneration, they could be instrumental to transforming the homogeneous blastema and postblastema fields into discrete patterned regions. |
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Planaria is the name of one genus, but the name planarian is used to designate any member of the family Planariidae and related families. |
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When planarian flatworms are cut in half, each piece grows back the end that is missing. |
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There is evidence that a special type of cell, a neoblast, is involved in planarian regeneration. |
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Even amongst planarian flatworms, famous for their ability to regenerate from random tissue fragments, species exist that have completely lost the ability to regenerate. |
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