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A comprehensive comparison of sex-inducing activity in asexual worms of the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis: the crucial sex-inducing substance appears to be present in yolk glands in Tricladida

BACKGROUND: Turbellarian species can post-embryonically produce germ line cells from pluripotent stem cells called neoblasts, which enables some of them to switch between an asexual and a sexual state in response to environmental changes. Certain low-molecular-weight compounds contained in sexually...

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Autores principales: Nakagawa, Haruka, Sekii, Kiyono, Maezawa, Takanobu, Kitamura, Makoto, Miyashita, Soichiro, Abukawa, Marina, Matsumoto, Midori, Kobayashi, Kazuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0096-9