Muscle Cells Provide Instructions for Planarian Regeneration

Regeneration requires both potential and instructions for tissue replacement. In planarians, pluripotent stem cells have the potential to produce all new tissue. The identities of the cells that provide regeneration instructions are unknown. Here, we report that position control genes (PCGs) that c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jessica N. Witchley, Mirjam Mayer, Daniel E. Wagner, Jared H. Owen, Peter W. Reddien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-08-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124713003847