TY - ABST T1 - HOX gene complement and expression in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea Y1 - 2016 A1 - Currie, Ko W. A1 - Brown, David D. R. A1 - Zhu, Shujun A1 - Xu, ChangJiang A1 - Voisin, Veronique A1 - Bader, Gary D. A1 - Pearson, Bret J. SP - 1 EP - 11 AB - Freshwater planarians are well known for their regenerative abilities. Less well known is how planarians maintain spatial patterning in long-lived adult animals or how they re-pattern tissues during regeneration. HOX genes are good candidates to regulate planarian spatial patterning, yet the full complement or genomic clustering of planarian HOX genes has not yet been described, primarily because only a few have been detectable by in situ hybridization, and none have given morphological phenotypes when knocked down by RNAi. VL - 7 SN - 2041-9139 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-016-0044-8 IS - 1 JO - EvoDevo ER -