Vertically- and horizontally-transmitted memories – the fading boundaries between regeneration and inheritance in planaria
The Weismann barrier postulates that genetic information passes only from the germline to the soma and not in reverse, thus providing an obstacle to the inheritance of acquired traits. Certain organisms such as planaria – flatworms that can reproduce through asymmetric fission – avoid the limitation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Biology Open |
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| Online Access: | http://bio.biologists.org/content/5/9/1177 |