Glossiphoniid leeches as a touchstone for studies of development in clitellate annelids.
Annelid evolution
Helobdella
Leech development
Journal
Current topics in developmental biology
ISSN: 1557-8933
Titre abrégé: Curr Top Dev Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0163114
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
entrez:
26
3
2022
pubmed:
27
3
2022
medline:
26
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
My goals in this chapter are to share my enthusiasm for studying the biology of leeches, to place this work in context by presenting my rationale for studying non-traditional biological models in general, and to sample just three of the questions that intrigue me in leech biology, namely segmentation, genome evolution and neuronal fate specification. I first became excited about the idea of using leeches as a subject of investigation as an undergraduate in 1970 and have been engaged in this work since I arrived at Berkeley as a postdoc in 1976, intending to study leech neurobiology. Both my research interests and the rationale for the work have expanded greatly since then. What follows is a fragmentary personal and historical account-the interested reader may find more comprehensive treatments elsewhere (Kuo et al., 2020; Shankland & Savage, 1997; Shain, 2009; Weisblat & Huang, 2001; Weisblat & Kuo, 2009, 2014; Weisblat & Winchell, 2020).
Identifiants
pubmed: 35337458
pii: S0070-2153(21)00109-5
doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2021.12.019
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
433-468Informations de copyright
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