Germline regeneration: the worms' turn.
Asexual reproduction in the annelid Enchytraeus japonensis entails the regeneration of primordial germ cells from body parts that lack gonads. New primordial germ cells arise from piwi-expressing germline stem cells that are distinct from somatic stem cells.
Weisblat
David A
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Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, 385 LSA, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-3200, USA. weisblat@berkeley.edu
D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D005854:Germ Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D009835:Oligochaeta / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012038:Regeneration; D012100:Reproduction, Asexual / Q000502:physiology*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology; D014419:Turbellaria / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology
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