Organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) are a chemically diverse class of commonly used
insecticides. Epidemiological studies suggest that low dose chronic prenatal and infant …

Asexual freshwater planarians are an attractive invertebrate model for high-throughput
neurotoxicity screening, because they possess multiple quantifiable behaviors to assess …

The growing number of commercially used chemicals that are under-evaluated for
developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) combined with the difficulty in describing the etiology of …

Behavioral responses of freshwater planarians have been studied for over a century. 1 In
recent decades, behavior has been used as a readout to study planarian development and …

In response to noxious stimuli, planarians cease their typical ciliary gliding and exhibit an
oscillatory type of locomotion called scrunching. We have previously characterized the …

Freshwater planarians normally glide smoothly through ciliary propulsion on their ventral
side. Certain environmental conditions, however, can induce musculature-driven forms of …

Answers to mechanistic questions about biological phenomena require fluency in a variety
of molecular biology techniques and physical concepts. Here, we present an …

Planarians are traditional model invertebrates in regeneration and developmental biology
research that also display a variety of quantifiable behaviors useful to screen for …

Planarian flatworms are best known for their impressive regenerative capacity, yet this trait
varies across species. In addition, planarians have other features that share morphology …

Background Planarian flatworms are best known for their impressive regenerative capacity,
yet this trait varies across species. In addition, planarians have other features that share …