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Articles on Macrostomum lignano
2010
- Peter Sandner, Lukas Schärer
No plastic responses to experimental manipulation of sperm competition per se in a free-living flatworm
Ethology 116, 292-299
- Dita B. Vizoso, Gunde Rieger, Lukas Schärer
Goings-on inside a worm: functional hypotheses derived from sexual conflict thinking
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99, 370-383
- Katrien De Mulder, Georg Kuales, Daniela Pfister, Bernhard Egger, Thomas Seppi, Paul Eichberger, Gaëtan Borgonie, Peter Ladurner
Potential of Macrostomum lignano to recover from γ-ray irradiation
Cell and Tissue Research 339, 527-542
2009
- Kiyono Sekii, Willi Salvenmoser, Katrien De Mulder, Lukas Schärer, Peter Ladurner
Melav2, an elav-like gene, is essential for spermatid differentiation in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano
BMC Developmental Biology 9, 62
- Maxime Willems, Bernhard Egger, Carsten Wolff, Stijn Mouton, Wouter Houthoofd, Pamela Fonderie, Marjolein Couvreur, Tom Artois, Gaëtan Borgonie
Embryonic origins of hull cells in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano through cell lineage analysis: developmental and phylogenetic implications
Development Genes and Evolution 219, 409-417
- Stijn Mouton, Maxime Willems, Patricia Back, Bart P Braeckman, Gaëtan Borgonie
Demographic analysis reveals gradual senescence in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano
Frontiers in Zoology 6, 15
- Katrien De Mulder, Daniela Pfister, Georg Kuales, Bernhard Egger, Willi Salvenmoser, Maxime Willems, Jessica Steger, Katja Fauster, Ronald Micura, Gaëtan Borgonie, Peter Ladurner
Stem cells are differentially regulated during development, regeneration and homeostasis in flatworms
Developmental Biology 334, 198-212
- Bernhard Egger, Robert Gschwentner, Michael W Hess, Katharina T Nimeth, Zbigniew Adamski, Maxime Willems, Reinhard Rieger, Willi Salvenmoser
The caudal regeneration blastema is an accumulation of rapidly proliferating stem cells in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano
BMC Developmental Biology 9, 41
- Bernhard Egger, Dirk Steinke, Hiroshi Tarui, Katrien De Mulder, Detlev Arendt, Gaëtan Borgonie, Noriko Funayama, Robert Gschwentner, Volker Hartenstein, Bert Hobmayer, Matthew Hooge, Martina Hrouda, Sachiko Ishida, Chiyoko Kobayashi, Georg Kuales, Osamu Nishimura, Daniela Pfister, Reinhard Rieger, Willi Salvenmoser, Julian Smith, III, Ulrich Technau, Seth Tyler, Kiyokazu Agata, Walter Salzburger, Peter Ladurner
To be or not to be a flatworm: The acoel controversy
PLoS ONE 4(5), e5502
- Maxime Willems, Mieke Boone, Marjolein Couvreur, Katrien De Mulder, Jelka Van Ranst, Tom Artois, Gaëtan Borgonie
Use of freeze-cracking in ontogenetic research in Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomida, Rhabditophora)
Development Genes and Evolution 219, 273–279
- Paul McVeigh, Gunnar R. Mair, Louise Atkinson, Peter Ladurner, Mostafa Zamanian, Ekaterina Novozhilova, Nikki J. Marks, Tim A. Day, Aaron G. Maule
Discovery of multiple neuropeptide families in the phylum Platyhelminthes
International Journal for Parasitology 39, 1243–1252
- Tim Janicke & Lukas Schärer
Determinants of mating and sperm-transfer success in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 405–415
- Stijn Mouton, Maxime Willems, Bart P. Braeckman, Bernhard Egger, Peter Ladurner, Lukas Schärer, Gaëtan Borgonie
The free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano: A new model organism for ageing research
Experimental Gerontology 44, 243-249
- Maxime Willems, Frederic Leroux, Myriam Claeys, Mieke Boone, Stijn Mouton, Tom Artois, Gaëtan Borgonie
Ontogeny of the complex sperm in the macrostomid flatworm Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomorpha, Rhabditophora)
Journal of Morphology 270, 162-174
2008
- Bernhard Egger
Regeneration: Rewarding, but potentially risky
Birth Defects Research (Part C) 84, 257-264
- Daniela Pfister, Katrien De Mulder, Volker Hartenstein, Georg Kuales, Gaëtan Borgonie, Florentine Marx, Joshua Morris, Peter Ladurner
Flatworm stem cells and the germ line: Developmental and evolutionary implications of macvasa expression in Macrostomum lignano
Developmental Biology 319, 146-159
2007
- Verena S. Brauer, Lukas Schärer, Nico K. Michiels
Phenotypically flexible sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Evolution 61, 216-222
- Bernhard Egger, Robert Gschwentner, Reinhard Rieger
Free-living flatworms under the knife: past and present
Development Genes and Evolution 217, 89-104
- Joshua Morris, Albert Cardona, Maria Del Mar De Miguel-Bonet, Volker Hartenstein
Neurobiology of the basal platyhelminth Macrostomum lignano: map and digital 3D model of the juvenile brain neuropile
Development Genes and Evolution 217, 569-584
- Katharina Theresia Nimeth, Bernhard Egger, Reinhard Rieger, Willi Salvenmoser, Roland Peter, Robert Gschwentner
Regeneration in Macrostomum lignano (Platyhelminthes): cellular dynamics in the neoblast stem cell system
Cell & Tissue Research 327, 637-646
- Daniela Pfister, Katrien De Mulder, Isabelle Philipp, Georg Kuales, Martina Hrouda, Paul Eichberger, Gaëtan Borgonie, Volker Hartenstein, Peter Ladurner
The exceptional stem cell system of Macrostomum lignano: Screening for gene expression and studying cell proliferation by hydroxyurea treatment and irradiation
Frontiers in Zoology 4, 9
- Lukas Schärer, Dagmar Knoflach, Dita B. Vizoso, Gunde Rieger, Ursula Peintner
Thraustochytrids as novel parasitic protists of marine free-living flatworms: Thraustochytrium caudivorum sp. nov. parasitizes Macrostomum lignano
Marine Biology 152, 1095–1104
- Lukas Schärer, Johanna Zaubzer, Willi Salvenmoser, Christof Seifarth, Peter Ladurner
Tracking sperm of a donor in a recipient: an immunocytochemical approach
Animal Biology 57, 121-136
- Lukas Schärer & Dita B. Vizoso
Phenotypic plasticity in sperm production rate: there’s more to it than testis size
Evolutionary Ecology 21, 295–306
- Dita B. Vizoso & Lukas Schärer
Resource-dependent sex-allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20, 1046-1055
2006
- Andreas Bode, Willi Salvenmoser, Katharina Nimeth, Monika Mahlknecht, Zbigniew Adamski, Reinhard M. Rieger, Roland Peter, Peter Ladurner
Immunogold-labeled S-phase neoblasts, total neoblast number, their distribution, and evidence for arrested neoblasts in Macrostomum lignano (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora)
Cell & Tissue Research 325, 577-587
- Bernhard Egger, Peter Ladurner, Katharina Nimeth, Robert Gschwentner, Reinhard Rieger
The regeneration capacity of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano — on repeated regeneration, rejuvenation, and the minimal size needed for regeneration
Development Genes and Evolution 216, 565-577
- Bernhard Egger, Peter Ladurner, Katharina Nimeth, Robert Gschwentner, Reinhard Rieger
The regeneration capacity of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano — on repeated regeneration, rejuvenation, and the minimal size needed for regeneration. Erratum
Development Genes and Evolution 216, 579-580
- Joshua Morris, Peter Ladurner, Reinhard Rieger, Daniela Pfister, Maria Del Mar De Miguel-Bonet, David Jacobs, Volker Hartenstein
The Macrostomum lignano EST database as a molecular resource for studying platyhelminth development and phylogeny
Development Genes and Evolution 216, 695-707
2005
- Bernhard Egger & Sachiko Ishida
Chromosome fission or duplication in Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomorpha, Plathelminthes) – remarks on chromosome numbers in archoophoran turbellarians
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 43, 127-132
- Peter Ladurner, Daniela Pfister, Christof Seifarth, Lukas Schärer, Monika Mahlknecht, Willi Salvenmoser, Regine Gerth, Florentine Marx, Reinhard Rieger
Production and characterisation of cell- and tissue-specific monoclonal antibodies for the flatworm Macrostomum sp.
Histochemistry and Cell Biology 123, 89-104
- Peter Ladurner, Lukas Schärer, Willi Salvenmoser, Reinhard M. Rieger
A new model organism among the lower Bilateria and the use of digital microscopy in taxonomy of meiobenthic Platyhelminthes: Macrostomum lignano, n. sp. (Rhabditophora, Macrostomorpha)
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 43, 114-126
- Lukas Schärer, Peter Sandner, Nico K. Michiels
Trade-off between male and female allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum sp.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18, 396-404
2004
- Ilona G. Bebenek, Ruth D. Gates, Joshua Morris, Volker Hartenstein, David K. Jacobs
sine oculis in basal Metazoa
Development Genes and Evolution 214, 342-351
- Joshua Morris, Ramachandra Nallur, Peter Ladurner, Bernhard Egger, Reinhard Rieger, Volker Hartenstein
The embryonic development of the flatworm Macrostomum sp.
Development Genes and Evolution 214, 220-239
- Katharina T. Nimeth, Monika Mahlknecht, Andrea Mezzanato, Roland Peter, Reinhard Rieger, Peter Ladurner
Stem cell dynamics during growth, feeding, and starvation in the basal flatworm Macrostomum sp. (Platyhelminthes)
Developmental Dynamics 230, 91-99
- Roland Peter, Robert Gschwentner, Wolfgang Schürmann, Reinhard M. Rieger, Peter Ladurner
The significance of stem cells in free-living flatworms: one common source for all cells in the adult
Journal of Applied Biomedicine 2, 21-35
- Lukas Schärer, Greg Joss, Peter Sandner
Mating behaviour of the marine turbellarian Macrostomum sp.: these worms suck
Marine Biology 145, 373–380
- Lukas Schärer, Peter Ladurner, Reinhard M. Rieger
Bigger testes do work more: experimental evidence that testis size reflects testicular cell proliferation activity in the marine invertebrate, the free-living flatworm Macrostomum sp.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56, 420–425
2003
2002
2001
- Christian Behensky, Wolfgang Schürmann, Roland Peter
Quantitative analysis of turbellarian cell suspensions by fluorescent staining with acridine orange, and video microscopy
Belgian Journal of Zoology 131 (Suppl 1), 131-136
- Roland Peter, Peter Ladurner, Reinhard M. Rieger
The role of stem cell strategies in coping with environmental stress and choosing between alternative reproductive modes: Turbellaria rely on a single cell type to maintain individual life and propagate species
P.S.Z.N. Marine Ecology, 22, 35-51
- Willi Salvenmoser, Doris Riedl, Peter Ladurner, Reinhard Rieger
Early steps in the regeneration of the musculature in Macrostomum sp. (Macrostomorpha)
Belgian Journal of Zoology 131 (Suppl 1), 105-109
2000
1999
Book chapters on Macrostomum lignano
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