Q&A: What is regeneration, and why look to planarians for answers?

Amputation induces stem cell mobilization to sites of injury during planarian regeneration

(2012) O. C. Guedelhoefer et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Wnt Signaling and Injury Repair

(2012) J. L. Whyte et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Clonogenic Neoblasts Are Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells That Underlie Planarian Regeneration

(2011) D. E. Wagner et al.   SCIENCE

Expression of secreted Wnt pathway components reveals unexpected complexity of the planarian amputation response

(2010) Kyle A. Gurley et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evidence for the Local Evolution of Mechanisms Underlying Limb Regeneration in Salamanders

(2010) A. Acely Garza-Garcia et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Higher-level salamander relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes

(2009) Peng Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A wound-induced Wnt expression program controls planarian regeneration polarity

(2009) C. P. Petersen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Planarian Hh Signaling Regulates Regeneration Polarity and Links Hh Pathway Evolution to Cilia

(2009) J. C. Rink et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular Analysis of Stem Cells and Their Descendants during Cell Turnover and Regeneration in the Planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

(2008) George T. Eisenhoffer et al.   Cell Stem Cell

 -Catenin Defines Head Versus Tail Identity During Planarian Regeneration and Homeostasis

(2007) K. A. Gurley et al.   SCIENCE