Planarians are on the rise as a model system for regeneration and stem cell dynamics.
Almost in parallel the interest in planarian field biology has declined. Besides representing …

Describing biological diversity is a challenging endeavour, especially for the small, cryptic
animals that make up the meiofauna. The field of DNA taxonomy, ie, the use of DNA to …

Hundreds of planarian species exist worldwide, representing a rich phenotypic diversity.
This chapter presents an overview of the morphology and anatomy of various taxonomic …

Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are useful and relatively accessible sources of
molecular data to explore and understand the evolutionary history and relationships of …

Aim Freshwater planarians may have a wide geographical range despite their assumed low
vagility. Found across four continents, Dugesia may have either an ancient origin on a large …

The Mediterranean is one of the most biodiverse areas of the Paleartic region. Here, basing
on large data sets of single copy orthologs obtained from transcriptomic data, we …

Planarians are a group of free-living platyhelminths (triclads) best-known largely due to long-
standing regeneration and pattern formation research. However, the group's diversity and …

The chapter provides a concise account of collecting techniques, and basic histological
techniques for investigating planarians, intended for use by practicing scientists and …

The keystone of planarian taxonomy traditionally has been the anatomy of the copulatory
apparatus. However, many planarian species comprise asexual fissiparous populations …

Abstract The genus Girardia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) comprises several species of
which some have spread from their original areas of distribution in the Americas to other …