Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Planaria as a model of body-axis specification in ancestral eumetazoa

Metazoan body plans combine well-defined primary, secondary, and in many bilaterians, tertiary body axes with structural asymmetries at multiple scales. Despite decades of study, how axis-defining symmetries and system-defining asymmetries co-emerge during both evolution and development remain open...

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Main Authors: Chris Fields, Michael Levin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Communicative & Integrative Biology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2020.1729601