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Such exposure with opposite polarity can induce a planarian with 2 tails. Two-headed planaria regenerates can be induced by treating amputated fragments with pharmacological agents that alter levels of calcium, cyclic AMP, and protein kinase C activity in cells, [37] as well as by genetic expression blocks (interference RNA) to the canonical ...
Dugesia japonica is a species of freshwater planarian that inhabits freshwater bodies of East Asia, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and northeastern Siberia. [2] However, molecular studies suggest that Dugesia japonica is polyphyletic and different populations across its area of occurrence constitute distinct species.
Planaria is a genus of planarians in the family Planariidae. Due to its excellent ability to regenerate, species of Planaria has also been used as model organisms in regeneration studies. [ 1 ] When an individual is cut into pieces, each piece has the ability to regenerate into a fully formed individual. [ 2 ]
Morgan found that a piece corresponding to 1/279th of a planarian [11] or a fragment with as few as 10,000 cells could regenerate into a new worm within one to two weeks. [13] Morgan also found that if both the head and the tail were cut off a flatworm the middle segment would regenerate a head from the former anterior end and a tail from the ...
Epimorphosis is defined as the regeneration of a specific part of an organism in a way that involves extensive cell proliferation of somatic stem cells, [1] dedifferentiation, and reformation, [2] as well as blastema formation. [3]
Two-headed sharks may seem like science fiction, but National Geographic is pointing out that they seem to be becoming more common around the world. Increased sightings of two-headed sharks baffle ...
If you think a normal shark is intimidating enough, try one with two heads. Scientists recently documented a case involving a two-headed embryo among egg-laying sharks and it is believed to be the ...
For sexually reproducing planaria: "the lifespan of individual planarian can be as long as 3 years, likely due to the ability of neoblasts to constantly replace aging cells". Whereas for asexually reproducing planaria: "individual animals in clonal lines of some planarian species replicating by fission have been maintained for over 15 years".