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Molecular Reproduction & Development Volume 84, Issue 12, December 2017
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
molecular reproduction and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.745
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1098-2795
pISSN - 1040-452X
DOI - 10.1002/mrd.22727
Subject(s) - biology , planarian , spermatogenesis , oogenesis , somatic cell , germline , population , flatworm , microbiology and biotechnology , rna interference , reproduction , piwi interacting rna , genetics , andrology , rna , zoology , regeneration (biology) , embryo , oocyte , gene , endocrinology , demography , sociology , medicine
The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea develops its entire reproductive system post‐embryonically from a population of adult somatic stem cells. Counts et al. (this issue) assessed the requirement of different chaperonin CCT/TRiC subunits during spermatogenesis and somatic integrity using RNA‐interference, which allows for the genetic assessment of specific components during oogenesis and spermatogenesis in this organism. Shown here is a sexually mature planarian (S. mediterranea), imaged by dark‐field microscopy, overlaid on a confocal image of the interior of an individual testis lobe in which the nuclei of cells during various stages of spermatogenesis are revealed .

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