General Reading

Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2000). Regeneration in the Metazoans: Why does it happen? BioEssays 22, 578-590.

Brockes, J. P., Kumar, A. and Velloso, C. P. (2001). Regeneration as an evolutionary variable. J Anat 199, 3-11.

Reddien, P. W. and Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2004). Fundamentals of Planarian Regeneration. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 20, 725-57.

Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2006). Planarian regeneration: its end is its beginning. Cell 124, 241-5.

Additional Reading

Sánchez Alvarado, A. and Newmark, P. A. (1999). Double-stranded RNA specifically disrupts gene expression during planarian regeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96, 5049-54.

Sánchez Alvarado, A., Newmark, P. A., Robb, S. M. and Juste, R. (2002). The Schmidtea mediterranea database as a molecular resource for studying platyhelminthes, stem cells and regeneration. Development 129, 5659-65.

Newmark, P. A. and Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2000). Bromodeoxyuridine specifically labels the regenerative stem cells of planarians. Dev Biol 220, 142-53.

Reddien, P. W., Bermange, A. L., Murfitt, K. J., Jennings, J. R. and Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2005). Identification of genes needed for regeneration, stem cell function, and tissue homeostasis by systematic gene perturbation in planaria. Dev Cell 8, 635-49.

Reddien, P. W., Oviedo, N. J., Jennings, J. R., Jenkin, J. C. and Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2005). SMEDWI-2 is a PIWI-like protein that regulates planarian stem cells. Science 310, 1327-30.

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