Exploring regenerative abilities in planarian flatworms across a diverse living collection reveals independent gains and losses of head regeneration and the rescue of regeneration defects by inhibiting a single cell–cell interaction signal.
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Lewin, T.D., Luo, YJ. Transitions and trade-offs in regeneration. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1965–1966 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02179-6
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