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Supreme regenerative skills help sea spiders to regrow guts and more

Other arthropods can regrow lost legs, but the sea spider can regenerate central organs all the way to the anus.
Black and white image of a fully regenerated adult male sea spider Pycnogonum litorale

A male sea spider of the species Pycnogonum litorale has fully regenerated its amputated body parts. Credit: Georg Brenneis

A paradigm-shifting species of sea spider is helping to rewrite the story of regeneration in animals that moult1.

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Nature 614, 10 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00133-x

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  1. Brenneis, G., Frankowski, K., Maaß, L. & Scholtz, G. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 120, e2217272120 (2023).

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