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Bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel

Available evidence strongly suggests that alternative, Earth‐bound explanations should be sought first for the occurrence of a single bipolar planarian flatworm returning from space travel. Double‐headed worms have been amply documented as arising under experimental conditions as well as spontaneous...

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Autores principales: Sluys, Ronald, Stocchino, Giacinta A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29299320
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/reg2.90
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spelling pubmed-57437822018-01-03 Bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel Sluys, Ronald Stocchino, Giacinta A. Regeneration (Oxf) Letter to the Editor Available evidence strongly suggests that alternative, Earth‐bound explanations should be sought first for the occurrence of a single bipolar planarian flatworm returning from space travel. Double‐headed worms have been amply documented as arising under experimental conditions as well as spontaneously in stock cultures of planarians. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5743782/ /pubmed/29299320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/reg2.90 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Regeneration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel
title_full_unstemmed Bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel
title_short Bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel
title_sort bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743782/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/reg2.90
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