@booklet {1669,
	title = {Stem cell systems and regeneration in planaria},
	volume = {223},
	year = {2012},
	month = {2012//},
	pages = {67 - 84},
	abstract = {Planarians are members of the Platyhelminthes (flatworms). These animals have evolved a remarkable stem cell system. A single pluripotent adult stem cell type ({\textquotedblleft}neoblast{\textquotedblright}) gives rise to the entire range of cell types and organs in the planarian body plan, including a brain, digestive-, excretory-, sensory- and reproductive systems. Neoblasts are abundantly present throughout the mesenchyme and divide continuously. The resulting stream of progenitors and turnover of differentiated cells drive the rapid self-renewal of the entire animal within a matter of weeks. Planarians grow and literally de-grow ({\textquotedblleft}shrink{\textquotedblright}) by the food supply-dependent adjustment of organismal turnover rates, scaling body plan proportions over as much as a 50-fold size range. Their dynamic body architecture further allows astonishing regenerative abilities, including the regeneration of complete and perfectly proportioned animals even from tiny tissue remnants. Planarians as an experimental system, therefore, provide unique opportunities for addressing a spectrum of current problems in stem cell research, including the evolutionary conservation of pluripotency, the dynamic organization of differentiation lineages and the mechanisms underlying organismal stem cell homeostasis. The first part of this review focuses on the molecular biology of neoblasts as pluripotent stem cells. The second part examines the fascinating mechanistic and conceptual challenges posed by a stem cell system that epitomizes a universal design principle of biological systems: the dynamic steady state.},
	isbn = {1432-041X},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00427-012-0426-4},
	author = {Rink, Jochen C.}
}
@booklet {1605,
	title = {Proposal for the sequencing of a new target genome: white paper for a planarian genome project},
	year = {2003},
	author = {Alejandro S{\'a}nchez Alvarado and P. W. Reddien and P. A. Newmark and Chad Nusbaum}
}
@booklet {1550,
	title = {HOX gene complement and expression in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016//},
	pages = {1 - 11},
	abstract = {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.},
	isbn = {2041-9139},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-016-0044-8},
	author = {Currie, Ko W. and Brown, David D. R. and Zhu, Shujun and Xu, ChangJiang and Voisin, Veronique and Bader, Gary D. and Pearson, Bret J.}
}
@booklet {1547,
	title = {Micro-computed tomography scan and virtual histological slide data for the land planarian <i>Obama otavioi</i> (Platyhelminthes)},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016//},
	pages = {1 - 7},
	abstract = {<p>We investigated whether images obtained through X-ray micro-computed tomography (\&mu;CT) can be used in conjunction with traditional methods for morphological studies of soft-bodied land planarians. \&mu;CT is non-invasive and provides true-to-scale three-dimensional imagery at high resolution. We compared \&mu;CT-based images of a recently described land planarian species of Obama otavioi (Platyhelminthes) with those obtained from light microphotography of histological sections, most of which were also digitized at high magnification.</p>
},
	isbn = {2047-217X},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13742-016-0119-4},
	author = {Carbayo, Fernando and Lenihan, Jennifer Winifred}
}
@booklet {1500,
	title = {Planarian shows decision-making behavior in response to multiple stimuli by integrative brain function},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2015},
	month = {2015//},
	pages = {1 - 15},
	abstract = {Planarians belong to an evolutionarily early group of organisms that possess a central nervous system including a well-organized brain with a simple architecture but many types of neurons. Planarians display a number of behaviors, such as phototaxis and thermotaxis, in response to external stimuli, and it has been shown that various molecules and neural pathways in the brain are involved in controlling these behaviors. However, due to the lack of combinatorial assay methods, it remains obscure whether planarians possess higher brain functions, including integration in the brain, in which multiple signals coming from outside are coordinated and used in determining behavioral strategies.},
	isbn = {2056-306X},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-014-0010-z},
	author = {Inoue, Takeshi and Hoshino, Hajime and Yamashita, Taiga and Shimoyama, Seira and Agata, Kiyokazu}
}
