title: Gene nomenclature guidelines for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea.
abstract: We describe a gene nomenclature system for the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Guidelines are specified for designating names for genes and proteins, as well as for describing RNA-mediated genetic interference (RNAi) experiments. The proposed conventions aim to avoid multiple names being ascribed to single genes and to establish a uniform, simple method for naming genes in S. mediterranea that is readily understood by researchers working on planarians and other organisms.
authors.affiliation: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Peter W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Reddien
authors.forename: Phillip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Newmark
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sánchez Alvarado
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002965:Classification; D017238:Genes, Helminth; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D010932:Planarians / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D015801:Helminth Proteins