Regeneration and Growth as Modes of Adult Development: The Platyhelminthes as a Case Study
2015
Some species of Platyhelminthes have become model systems in which to study whole-body regeneration in adults. Before describing how this capacity is distributed and varies within the phylum, however, it is important to introduce the adult pluripotent stem cells that confer this remarkable ability in flatworms, the so-called neoblasts.
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