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Excessive feeding induces development of a colony-like body plan in paratomous flatworms

2026-08-06

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Colonial animals rely on agametic reproduction to generate repeated colony modules (zooids). Although zooid development has been extensively studied in fully colonial species, such as cnidarians, bryozoans, or tunicates, it provides limited insight into how and why animals transition from solitary asexual fission to colony formation. Here, we fill this gap by studying the dynamics of asexual development in the mic...

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Literature Corpus work: 253a0c9a-5d51-5041-94fc-bb093f8f806f
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.05.742992

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