The number of publicly available parasitic worm genome sequences has increased
dramatically in the past three years, and research interest in helminth functional genomics is …

How do animals regenerate specialised tissues or their entire body after a traumatic injury,
how has this ability evolved and what are the genetic and cellular components underpinning …

The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is an important model for stem cell research and
regeneration, but adequate genome resources for this species have been lacking. Here we …

The earthworm is particularly fascinating to biologists because of its strong regenerative
capacity. However, many aspects of its regeneration in nature remain elusive. Here we …

Limb regeneration is a fascinating and medically interesting trait that has been well
preserved in arthropod lineages, particularly in crustaceans. However, the molecular …

Many aquatic invertebrates are associated with surfaces, using adhesives to attach to the
substratum for locomotion, prey capture, reproduction, building or defence. Their intriguing …

Regeneration-capable flatworms are informative research models to study the mechanisms
of stem cell regulation, regeneration, and tissue patterning. However, the lack of …

The molecular mechanisms underlying whole-body regeneration are best understood in the
planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea, where a heterogeneous population of somatic …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification with a very long evolutionary history.
However, DNA methylation evolves surprisingly rapidly across eukaryotes. The genome …

Temporal collinearity is often considered the main force preserving Hox gene clusters in
animal genomes. Studies that combine genomic and gene expression data are scarce …