Macrostomum lignano is a free-living flatworm that is emerging as an attractive experimental
animal for research on a broad range of biological questions. One feature setting it apart …

Regeneration-capable flatworms are informative research models to study the mechanisms
of stem cell regulation, regeneration, and tissue patterning. However, the lack of …

Understanding the process of regeneration has been one of the longstanding scientific aims,
from a fundamental biological perspective, as well as within the applied context of …

Platyhelminthes, also known as flatworms, is a phylum of bilaterian invertebrates infamous
for their parasitic representatives. The classes Cestoda, Monogenea, and Trematoda …

The regeneration-capable flatworm Macrostomum lignano is a powerful model organism to
study the biology of stem cells in vivo. As a flatworm amenable to transgenesis, it …

Traumatic insemination is a mating behavior during which the (sperm) donor uses a
traumatic intromittent organ to inject an ejaculate through the epidermis of the (sperm) …

The free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano is a model organism for evolutionary and
developmental biology studies. Recently, an unusual karyotypic diversity was revealed in …

The free‐living flatworm Macrostomum lignano is used as a model in a range of research
fields—including aging, bioadhesion, stem cells, and sexual selection—culminating in the …

Temporal and spatial characterization of gene expression is a prerequisite for the
understanding of cell-, tissue-, and organ-differentiation. In a multifaceted approach to …

Free-living flatworms of the genus Macrostomum are small and transparent animals,
representing attractive study organisms for a broad range of topics in evolutionary …