How Marine Worms Regenerate Lost Body Parts | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Max Perutz Labs

From left to right: Max Perutz Labs group leader Florian Raible, first authors and doctoral students Alexander Stockinger and Leonie Adelmann.

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Credit: Leonie Adelmann, Universität Wien

Shortly after amputation of the posterior end, specialised epithelial cells begin to return to a special stem cell state (red). The missing segments are then recreated with the help of the newly formed growth zone.

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Credit: Leonie Adelmann

Visualisation of specific transcripts (green, magenta) confirmed the identification of different stem cell populations proliferating in regenerating worm tails (cyan).

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