In silico lineage tracing through single cell transcriptomics identifies a neural stem cell population in planarians

Genome Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Molinaro, Alyssa M ^a,b   Pearson, Bret J ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

In silico lineage tracing; Neural stem cells; Planarians; Schmidtea mediterranea; Single cell RNAseq; Waterfall; Neoblasts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT STEM CELL; BRAIN; CELL POPULATION; HEAD; NEURAL STEM CELL; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSGENE; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PLANARIANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84965081867     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0937-9     Document Type: Article

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