Whole-Body Acoel Regeneration Is Controlled by Wnt and Bmp-Admp Signaling
Srivastava M, Mazza-Curll K, van Wolfswinkel J, Reddien P. Whole-Body Acoel Regeneration Is Controlled by Wnt and Bmp-Admp Signaling. Current Biology 2014, 24: 1107-1113. PMID: 24768051, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.042.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWhole-body regenerationMolecular mechanismsLast common ancestorEarly branching positionDorsal-ventral axisYears of evolutionEnigmatic phylumBilaterian evolutionMolecular resourcesUnderlying molecular mechanismsSystemic RNAiAccessible embryosCommon ancestorHofsteniaPhylogenetic analysisVentral cellsAcoelsMolecular studiesTranscriptomePhylaRNAiPlanariansAncestorBranching positionModel system