Transcriptomic analysis reveals differences in the regulation of amino acid metabolism in asexual and sexual planarians

A comprehensive comparison of sex-inducing activity in asexual worms of the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis: the crucial sex-inducing substance appears to be present in yolk glands in Tricladida

(2018) Haruka Nakagawa et al.   Zoological Letters

The metabolic programming of stem cells

(2017) Ng Shyh-Chang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Genetic expansion of chaperonin-containing TCP-1 (CCT/TRiC) complex subunits yields testis-specific isoforms required for spermatogenesis in planarian flatworms

(2017) Jenna T. Counts et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

The Role of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) in Insulin Signaling

(2017) Mee-Sup Yoon   Nutrients

The identification of d-tryptophan as a bioactive substance for postembryonic ovarian development in the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis

(2017) Kazuya Kobayashi et al.   Scientific Reports

Amino Acid Sensing by mTORC1: Intracellular Transporters Mark the Spot

(2016) Deborah C.I. Goberdhan et al.   Cell Metabolism

Schistosomiasis as a disease of stem cells

(2016) George R Wendt et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

BlastKOALA and GhostKOALA: KEGG Tools for Functional Characterization of Genome and Metagenome Sequences

(2016) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Exploring the sexual diversity of flatworms: Ecology, evolution, and the molecular biology of reproduction

(2016) Steven A. Ramm   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

KEGG: new perspectives on genomes, pathways, diseases and drugs

(2016) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Transcriptomic-Phylogenomic Analysis of the Evolutionary Relationships of Flatworms

(2015) Bernhard Egger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Serotonin and Cancer: What Is the Link?

(2015) D. Sarrouilhe et al.   CURRENT MOLECULAR MEDICINE

The first multi-gene phylogeny of the Macrostomorpha sheds light on the evolution of sexual and asexual reproduction in basal Platyhelminthes

(2015) Toon Janssen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

(2015) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The ups and downs of life: population expansion and bottlenecks of helminth parasites through their complex life cycle

(2015) ROBERT POULIN et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Planarian d-amino acid oxidase is involved in ovarian development during sexual induction

(2014) Takanobu Maezawa et al.   MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Serotonin receptors are selectively expressed in the avian germ cells and early embryos

(2014) Urszula Stępińska et al.   ZYGOTE

Cancer: a “stem-cell” disease?

(2013) Shi-Ming Tu   Cancer Cell International

Adult somatic stem cells in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

(2013) James J. Collins III et al.   NATURE

Functional genomic characterization of neoblast-like stem cells in larval Schistosoma mansoni

(2013) Bo Wang et al.   eLife

TORC1 is required to balance cell proliferation and cell death in planarians

(2012) Kimberly C. Tu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Planarian embryology in the era of comparative developmental biology

(2012) José M. Martín-Durán et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

An insulin-like peptide regulates size and adult stem cells in planarians

(2012) Claire M. Miller et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The planarian neoblast: the rambling history of its origin and some current black boxes

(2012) Jaume Baguñ   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Dr-nanos gene is essential for germ cell specification in the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis

(2012) Haruka Nakagawa et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

TOR signaling regulates planarian stem cells and controls localized and organismal growth

(2012) T. H. Peiris et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Streaming fragment assignment for real-time analysis of sequencing experiments

(2012) Adam Roberts et al.   NATURE METHODS

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Differential expression analysis of multifactor RNA-Seq experiments with respect to biological variation

(2012) Davis J. McCarthy et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Existence of Two Sexual Races in the Planarian Species Switching between Asexual and Sexual Reproduction

(2012) Kazuya Kobayashi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Control of adult stem cells in vivo by a dynamic physiological environment: diet-dependent systemic factors in Drosophila and beyond

(2012) Elizabeth T. Ables et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Molecular markers to characterize the hermaphroditic reproductive system of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

(2011) Tracy Chong et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

An emerging role for TOR signaling in mammalian tissue and stem cell physiology

(2011) Ryan C. Russell et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Sex-inducing effect of a hydrophilic fraction on reproductive switching in the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis (Seriata, Tricladida)

(2011) Kazuya Kobayashi et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Clonogenic Neoblasts Are Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells That Underlie Planarian Regeneration

(2011) D. E. Wagner et al.   SCIENCE

Planarian stem cells: a simple paradigm for regeneration

(2011) A. Aziz Aboobaker   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

A functional genomic screen in planarians identifies novel regulators of germ cell development

(2010) Y. Wang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

mTOR: from growth signal integration to cancer, diabetes and ageing

(2010) Roberto Zoncu et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Relationship between the Monoamine and Gonadotropin Content in Follicular Fluid of Preovulatory Graafian Follicles after Superovulation Treatment*

(2009) J. Bódis et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES

Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources

(2009) Da Wei Huang et al.   Nature Protocols

Changes in the levels of serotonin and dopamine in the central nervous system and ovary, and their possible roles in the ovarian development in the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

(2008) Yotsawan Tinikul et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Bioinformatics enrichment tools: paths toward the comprehensive functional analysis of large gene lists

(2008) Da Wei Huang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH