Mechanical injury is a prevalent challenge in the lives of animals with myriad potential
consequences for organisms, including reduced fitness and death. Research on animal …

The majority of animal phyla have species that can regenerate. Comparing regeneration
across animals can reconstruct the molecular and cellular evolutionary history of this …

Abstract Development of sexual characters and generation of gametes are tightly coupled
with growth. Platynereis dumerilii is a marine annelid that has been used to study germline …

Many annelids can regenerate missing body parts or reproduce asexually, generating all
cell types in adult stages. However, the putative adult stem cell populations involved in these …

Adult pluripotent stem cell (aPSC) populations underlie whole-body regeneration in many
distantly-related animal lineages, but how the underlying cellular and molecular …

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 …

Bivalves, from raw oysters to steamed clams, are popular choices among seafood lovers
and once limited to the coastal areas. The rapid growth of the aquaculture industry and …

Environmental stressors are assessed through methods that quantify their impacts on a wide
range of metrics including species density, growth rates, reproduction, behaviour and …

Migration of stem cells underpins the physiology of metazoan animals. For tissues to be
maintained, stem cells and their progeny must migrate and differentiate in the correct …

Animal regeneration, the ability to restore a lost body part, is a process that has fascinated
scientists for centuries. In this review, we first present what regeneration is and how it relates …