Muscular remodeling and anteroposterior patterning during tapeworm segmentation
Francesca Jarero,
Andrew Baillie,
Nick Riddiford
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundTapeworms are parasitic flatworms that independently evolved a segmented body plan, historically confounding comparisons with other animals. Anteroposterior (AP) patterning in free‐living flatworms and in tapeworm larvae is associated with canonical Wnt signaling and positional control genes (PCGs) are expressed by their musculature in regionalized domains along the AP axis. Here, we extend investigations of PCG expression to the adult of the mouse bile‐duct tapeworm Hymenolepis microstoma, focusing … Show more
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