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planarian

[ US /pɫəˈnɛɹiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts

How To Use planarian In A Sentence

  • The expression of Djhox#1053 in X-ray irradiated planarians cut two days after irradiation, was tested by whole mount in situ hybridization.
  • Make a classroom wall dictionary of all the new worm words your students are learning: annelid, fanworm, earthworm, flatworm, leech, lugworm, nematode, planarian, ribbonworm, spoonworm, tapeworm… to name several.
  • Here is a picture I took in the field; the planarian was still on the underside of the log. Bipalium adventitium
  • I wrote about the land planarian Bipalium adventitium in this post. Bipalium adventitium
  • Irrespective, this evidence establishes the existence of actively crawling organisms, almost certainly bilaterians, and almost certainly above the grade of planarians because of the implied hydrostatic skeleton.
  • In planarian worms, Pax6 orthologs are expressed in developing eyes, but do not appear to be required for eye development.
  • In Hydrozoans the same orthologous six genes are required for eye regeneration as in planarians, and in the box jellyfish Tripedalia a pax B gene, which may be a precursor of Pax6, was found to be expressed in the eyes.
  • In planarian regeneration, they could be instrumental to transforming the homogeneous blastema and postblastema fields into discrete patterned regions.
  • He received his Ph.D. in 1902 working on the behavior of planarians and stayed on as instructor of zoology until 1906.
  • Planarians are free-living flatworms, and have a much simpler life history.
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