How, when, and where: fate selection in regenerative planarians

Whole-body regeneration requires an organism to produce all missing cell types. The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea contains an estimated 150 distinct cell types, which can all be regenerated after injury. Cell-type production in planarians is regulated by the expression of fate-specific t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owusu-Boaitey, Kwadwo E.
Other Authors: Reddien, Peter W.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142701