activin-2 is required for regeneration of polarity on the planarian anterior-posterior axis

<jats:p>Planarians are flatworms and can perform whole-body regeneration. This ability involves a mechanism to distinguish between anterior-facing wounds that require head regeneration and posterior-facing wounds that require tail regeneration. How this head-tail regeneration polarity decision...

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Main Authors: Cloutier, Jennifer K, McMann, Conor L, Oderberg, Isaac M, Reddien, Peter W
Other Authors: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133456