the annelid worm is very different from another group of worms studied for its remarkable regenerative capacities: flatworms or planarians. Planarians possess pluripotent stem cells solely responsible ...

The other genus is a different ball game. The white planarians of Procotyla, especially Procotyla fluviatillis, are fiercely predatory, in so far as a worm measuring 15mm/0.6” can be. Among their ...

From a distance these flatworms look just like any other worm, but a closer examination ... the Wandering Broadhead Planarian (Bipalium adventitium) and Three-Lined Land Planarian (Bipalium ...

have now investigated whether alternative splicing is important for controlling how the worm’s stem cells behave ... the regulatory role and functional importance of AS in planarian stem cells and ...