Modeling planarian regeneration: A primer for reverse-engineering the worm

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lobo, Daniel ^a   Beane, Wendy S ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ALGORITHMIC MODEL; BODY PARTS; COMPLEX BODIES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FAULT-TOLERANT; GENETIC DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; MECHANISTICS; MODEL SPECIES; PROTEIN DATA;

REPAIR;

ALGORITHM; BIOENERGY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUES; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; ANNELID; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGENERATION;

EID: 84861141149     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002481     Document Type: Review

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