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Vertically- and horizontally-transmitted memories – the fading boundaries between regeneration and inheritance in planaria

The Weismann barrier postulates that genetic information passes only from the germline to the soma and not in reverse, thus providing an obstacle to the inheritance of acquired traits. Certain organisms such as planaria – flatworms that can reproduce through asymmetric fission – avoid the limitation...

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Autores principales: Neuhof, Moran, Levin, Michael, Rechavi, Oded
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27565761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.020149