Variation in phenotype, genotype, and somatic diversity among asexual Schmidtea mediterranea planarians

Summary: Most multicellular life reproduces sexually, utilizing a single-celled stage that acts as a genetic bottleneck. This bottleneck limits the evolution of selfish cell adaptations by ensuring all cells descend from a single progenitor. We investigated an obligately asexual strain of Schmidtea...

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Main Authors: Simon Kershenbaum, Danielle Ireland, Ziad Sabry, Christina Rabeler, Vir Shetty, Aziz Aboobaker, Eva-Maria S. Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-08-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225012969
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