Transcriptome analysis reveals strain-specific and conserved stemness genes in Schmidtea mediterranea.

The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is a powerful model organism for studying stem cell biology due to its extraordinary regenerative ability mediated by neoblasts, a population of adult somatic stem cells. Elucidation of the S. mediterranea transcriptome and the dynamics of transcript expression w...

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Main Authors: Alissa M Resch, Dasaradhi Palakodeti, Yi-Chien Lu, Michael Horowitz, Brenton R Graveley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3319590?pdf=render