Functional genomics in Spiralia

FM Martín-Zamora, BE Davies… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of the mechanisms that modulate gene expression in animals is strongly
biased by studying a handful of model species that mainly belong to three groups: Insecta …

Inhibition of ATM kinase rescues planarian regeneration after lethal radiation

DA Shiroor, KT Wang, BD Sanketi, JK Tapper… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
As stem cells divide, they acquire mutations that can be passed on to daughter cells. To
mitigate potentially deleterious outcomes, cells activate the DNA damage response (DDR) …

Purification of Planarian Stem Cells Using a Draq5-Based FACS Approach

KT Wang, J Tapper, CE Adler - Tissue Morphogenesis: Methods and …, 2024 - Springer
Planarians are flatworms that have the remarkable ability to regenerate entirely new
animals. This regenerative ability requires abundant adult stem cells called neoblasts, which …

A comparative analysis of planarian genomes reveals regulatory conservation in the face of rapid structural divergence

M Ivankovic, JN Brand, L Pandolfini, T Brown, M Pippel… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea can regenerate its entire body from small tissue
fragments and is studied as whole-body regeneration model species. While well-annotated …

Chromatin remodeling protein BPTF regulates transcriptional stability in planarian stem cells

P Verma, A Sanchez Alvarado, EM Duncan - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) correlates strongly with gene expression in
many different organisms, yet the question of whether it plays a causal role in transcriptional …