Genome-Wide Analyses Reveal a Role for Peptide Hormones in Planarian Germline Development. PLoS Biology, 2010; 8 (10): e1000509 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000509 ...

The planarian is of interest to those studying reproduction because it exists in sexual and asexual varieties. Asexual planaria reproduce by splitting into two pieces and then regenerating.

Planaria are a freshwater-living flatworms which are already widely used in scientific research. They are advanced invertebrates with a primitive brain and share similar features with the ...