Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Acoel regeneration mechanisms indicate an ancient role for muscle in regenerative patterning

  • Amelie A. Raz,
  • Mansi Srivastava,
  • Ranja Salvamoser,
  • Peter W. Reddien

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01148-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Planarian regenerative mechanisms suggest that muscle has an instructive role in patterning. Here, the authors show that muscle is also responsible for regenerative patterning information in an early-branching bilaterian, Hofstenia miamia, dating this back to the dawn of the Bilateria, over 550 million years ago.