Visceral regeneration in sea cucumbers has been studied since early last century; however,
it is only within the last 15 years that real progress has been made in understanding the …

Importance of the field: Expansion and ultimately homeostasis of neural cell number is
exquisitely regulated by molecular genetic networks operating in neural stem and progenitor …

Background Among deuterostomes, the regenerative potential is maximally expressed in
echinoderms, animals that can quickly replace most injured organs. In particular, sea …

The freshwater polyp Hydra is a cnidarian used as a model organism in a number of fields,
including the study of the origin and evolution of developmental mechanisms, aging …

Hydractinia species have been animal models in developmental biology and comparative
immunology for over a century, but are having a renaissance due to the establishment of …

(6). However, other hydra species do show increasing mortality with age when induced to
undergo sexual differentiation, surviving for 4 months on average, and showing deterioration …

In hydra, the regulation of the balance between cell death and cell survival is essential to
maintain homeostasis across the animal and promote animal survival during starvation …

Warming ocean temperatures associated with anthropogenic climate change are causing
the collapse of coral reef ecosystems. These stressors affect several aspects of coral …

In our previous reports, a Kazal family serine protease inhibitor, male reproduction-related
peptidase inhibitor Kazal-type (MRPINK) has been identified from the prawn …

The cell survival pathways of the diploblastic early multicellular eukaryotic hosts contain and
operate the molecular machinery resembling those of malignantly transformed individual …