Volume 56 - Nos. 1/2/3  (2012)   Special Issue               Editor-in-Chief: Juan Aréchaga

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ISSN: 0214-6282  /  ISSN-e: 1696-3547                  www.intjdevbiol.com

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Contents:

THE PLANARIA MODEL SYSTEM

Guest Editors:  Emili Saló and Kiyokazu Agata 

Preface  

 
Planarian regeneration: a classic topic claiming new attention
Emili Saló and Kiyokazu Agata
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 1-4 

Introductory Papers 

 
Evolutionary history of the Tricladida and the Platyhelminthes: an up-to-date phylogenetic and systematic account
Marta Riutort, Marta Álvarez-Presas, Eva Lázaro, Eduard Solà and Jordi Paps
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 5-17 

 
The planarian neoblast: the rambling history of its origin and some current black boxes
Jaume Baguñà
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 19-37 

 
Planarian embryology in the era of comparative developmental biology
José M. Martín-Durán, Francisco Monjo and Rafael Romero
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 39-48  

 
The past and present of planarians - An interview with Vittorio Gremigni
Alessandra Salvetti and Leonardo Rossi
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 49-52

Contributions  

 
Wnt signaling in planarians: new answers to old questions
Maria Almuedo-Castillo, Miquel Sureda-Gómez and Teresa Adell
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 53-65  

 
Small RNA pathways in Schmidtea mediterranea
Alissa M. Resch and Dasaradhi Palakodeti
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 67-74 

 
An insulin-like peptide regulates size and adult stem cells in planarians
Claire M. Miller and Phillip A. Newmark
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 75-82 

 
Decreased neoblast progeny and increased cell death during starvation-induced planarian degrowth
Cristina González-Estévez, Daniel A. Felix, Gustavo Rodríguez-Esteban and A. Aziz Aboobaker
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 83-91  

 
Comprehensive gene expression analyses in pluripotent stem cells of a planarian, Dugesia japonica
Norito Shibata, Tetsutaro Hayashi, Ryutaro Fukumura, Junsuke Fujii, Tomomi Kudome-Takamatsu, Osamu Nishimura, Syozo Sano, Fuyan Son, Nobuko Suzuki, Ryoko Araki, Masumi Abe and Kiyokazu Agata
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 93-102 

 
Global irradiation effects, stem cell genes and rare transcripts in the planarian transcriptome
Mireille Galloni
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 103-116 

 
Heterogeneity of planarian stem cells in the S/G2/M phase
Sören Moritz, Franziska Stöckle, Claudia Ortmeier, Henning Schmitz, Gustavo Rodríguez-Esteban, Göran Key and Luca Gentile
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 117-125 

 
Stem cell protection mechanisms in planarians: the role of some heat shock genes
Maria-Emilia Isolani, Maria Conte, Paolo Deri and Renata Batistoni
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 127-133 

 
Stem cells and neural signalling: the case of neoblast recruitment and plasticity in low dose X-ray treated planarians
Leonardo Rossi, Paola Iacopetti and Alessandra Salvetti
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 135-142 

 
Regeneration of neuronal cell types in Schmidtea mediterranea: an immunohistochemical and expression study
Susanna Fraguas, Sara Barberán, Begoña Ibarra, Linda Stöger and Francesc Cebrià
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 143-153 

 
Inhibitory Smads and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) modulate anterior photoreceptor cell number during planarian eye regeneration
Alejandro González-Sastre, Mª Dolores Molina and Emili Saló
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 155-163 

 
The Dr-nanos gene is essential for germ cell specification in the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis
Haruka Nakagawa, Hirotsugu Ishizu, Ayako Chinone,Kazuya Kobayashi and Midori Matsumoto
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 165-171 

 
The planarian P2X homolog in the regulation of asexual reproduction
Toshihide Sakurai, Hayoung Lee, Makoto Kashima, Yumi Saito, Tetsutaro Hayashi, Tomomi Kudome-Takamatsu, Osamu Nishimura, Kiyokazu Agata and Norito Shibata
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 173-182 

 
Physiological and molecular characterisation of cadmium stress in Schmidtea mediterranea
Michelle Plusquin, An-Sofie Stevens, Frank Van Belleghem, Olivier Degheselle, Andromeda Van Roten, Jessica Vroonen, Ronny Blust, Ann Cuypers, Tom Artois and Karen Smeets
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 183-191 

 
Planarians in pharmacology: parthenolide is a specific behavioral antagonist of cocaine in the planarian Girardia tigrina
Oné R. Pagán, Debra Baker, Sean Deats, Erica Montgomery, Matthew Tenaglia, Clinita Randolph, Dharini Kotturu, Christopher Tallarida, Daniel Bach, Galia Wilk, Scott Rawlsand Robert B. Raffa
EHU/UPV/UBC - The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2012) 56: 193-196