Article
Unusually Large Number of Mutations in Asexually Reproducing Clonal Planarian Dugesia japonica.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Nishimura Osamu, Hosoda Kazutaka, Kawaguchi Eri, Yazawa Shigenobu, Hayashi Tetsutaro, Inoue Takeshi, Umesono Yoshihiko, Agata Kiyokazu
Abstract excerpt
We established a laboratory clonal strain of freshwater planarian (Dugesia japonica) that was derived from a single individual and that continued to undergo autotomous asexual reproduction for more than 20 years, and we performed large-scale genome sequencing and transcriptome analysis on it. Despite the fact that a completely clonal strain of the planarian was used, an unusually large number of mutations were...
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