Regeneration and the need for simpler model organisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1445, 2004, Pages 759-763

  Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Molecular pathways; Planarians; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

REGENERATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PLANARIA; RHABDITIS; SCHMIDTEA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 2542448588     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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