Freshwater planarians were a classic model for studying the problems of development and
regeneration. However, as attention shifted towards animals with more rigid developmental …

The great powers of regeneration shown by freshwater planarians, capable of regenerating
a complete organism from any tiny body fragment, have attracted the interest of scientists …

Mariners are a widespread and diverse family of animal transposons. Extremely similar
mariners of the irritans subfamily are present in the genomes of three divergent insect host …

Insect Molecular Genetics, 2nd edition, is a succinct book that briefly introduces graduate
and undergraduate students to molecular genetics and the techniques used in this well …

Mariner family transposable elements are widespread in animals, but their regulation is
poorly understood, partly because only two are known to be functional. These are particular …

▪ Abstract The mariner/Tc1 superfamily of transposable elements is one of the most diverse
and widespread Class II transposable elements. Within the larger assemblage, the mariner …

Genetic studies of the mariner transposable element Mos1 have revealed two novel types of
regulatory mechanisms. In one mechanism, overproduction of the wild-type transposase …

Freshwater planarian flatworms possess uncanny regenerative capacities mediated by
abundant and collectively totipotent adult stem cells. Key functions of these cells during …

The encoded transposases of six mariner family and eight Tcl family transposons from
nematodes, insects, fish, and a planarian are fully aligned. The alignment allows recognition …

Planarians can undergo dramatic changes in body size and regenerate their entire body
plan from small pieces after cutting. This remarkable morphological plasticity has made them …