Acoel regeneration mechanisms indicate an ancient role for muscle in regenerative patterning

Acoel regeneration mechanisms indicate an ancient role for muscle in regenerative patterning

Nature Communications, Published online: 30 October 2017; doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01148-5

Planarian regenerative mechanisms suggest that muscle has an instructive role in patterning. Here, the authors show that muscle is also responsible for regenerative patterning information in an early-branching bilaterian, Hofstenia miamia, dating this back to the dawn of the Bilateria, over 550 million years ago.

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