Planarians are a group of flatworms. Some planarian species have remarkable regenerative
abilities, which involve abundant pluripotent adult stem cells. This makes these worms a …

Mechanical injury is a prevalent challenge in the lives of animals with myriad potential
consequences for organisms, including reduced fitness and death. Research on animal …

Many annelids can regenerate missing body parts or reproduce asexually, generating all
cell types in adult stages. However, the putative adult stem cell populations involved in these …

Although adult pluripotent stem cells (aPSCs) are found in many animal lineages,
mechanisms for their formation during embryogenesis are unknown. Here, we leveraged …

The majority of animal phyla have species that can regenerate. Comparing regeneration
across animals can reconstruct the molecular and cellular evolutionary history of this …

Adult pluripotent stem cell (aPSC) populations underlie whole-body regeneration in many
distantly-related animal lineages, but how the underlying cellular and molecular …

Regenerative abilities and their evolution in the different animal lineages have fascinated
generations of biologists. While some taxa are capable of restoring entire individuals from …

While virtually all animals show certain abilities for regeneration after an injury, these
abilities vary greatly among metazoans. Porifera (Sponges) is basal metazoans …

The question of why animals vary in their ability to regenerate remains one of the most
intriguing questions in biology. Annelids are a large and diverse phylum, many members of …

Species within nearly all extant animal lineages are capable of regenerating body parts.
However, it remains unclear whether the gene expression programme controlling …