Sex-inducing effects toward planarians widely present among parasitic flatworms

Summary: Various parasitic flatworms infect vertebrates for sexual reproduction, often causing devastating diseases in their hosts. Consequently, flatworms are of great socioeconomic and biomedical importance. Although the cessation of parasitic flatworm sexual reproduction is a major target of anti...

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Main Authors: Kiyono Sekii, Soichiro Miyashita, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Ikuma Saito, Yuria Saito, Sayaka Manta, Masaki Ishikawa, Miyu Narita, Taro Watanabe, Riku Ito, Mizuki Taguchi, Ryohei Furukawa, Aoi Ikeuchi, Kayoko Matsuo, Goro Kurita, Takashi Kumagai, Sho Shirakashi, Kazuo Ogawa, Kimitoshi Sakamoto, Ryo Koyanagi, Noriyuki Satoh, Mizuki Sasaki, Takanobu Maezawa, Madoka Ichikawa-Seki, Kazuya Kobayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222020491