TY  - JOUR
TI  - Expression of a <i>retinal homeobox (Rx)</i> gene during planarian regeneration 
AU  - Mannini, Linda
AU  - Deri, Paolo
AU  - Picchi, Jacopo
AU  - Batistoni, Renata
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - Retinal homeobox (Rx) genes, with representatives in vertebrates and invertebrates, encode fundamental regulators of early eye and brain formation. Here we describe the spatio-temporal expression profile of a candidate planarian orthologue of Rx during regeneration in Dugesia japonica and Schmidtea mediterranea. Although low levels of Rx transcripts were found throughout the body of intact planarians, high levels of Rx expression were specific to regenerating tissue in both head and tail fragments. We also observed that Rx was never expressed in the simple rhabdomeric planarian eyes, supporting the notion that only formation of eyes that use the ciliary type of photoreceptors requires Rx function.
PY  - 2008
DO  - 10.1387/ijdb.082616lm
VL  - 52
IS  - 8
SP  - 1113
EP  - 1117
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/082616lm
Y2  - 2024/11/05/13:18:21
ER  -