Happy to see out our latest work on studying animal body size variations using single cell transcriptomics to measure gene expression of individual cells. Learned my fair bit of statistics here, and most importantly I learned how to build wrapper functions for "complex" tasks in R (such as differntial gene expression) in a modular way. Thanks to all the authors involved! https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm7042 #singlecell #scrna #allometry #splitseq #planarians #generegulation
#Planarians (triclads) are free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria,[2][3] order Tricladida,[4] which includes hundreds of species, found in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial habitats.[5] Planarians are characterized by a three-branched

Heads or Tails? 🪙

Clare Booth, Erin Davies & team characterise the developmental onset of regeneration in the flatworm Schmidtea polychroa. #preprint

Take a look at the latest preLight from Isabella Cisneros #preLightsAmbassador ⬇️ 👀

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/axis-reset-is-rate-limiting-for-onset-of-whole-body-regenerative-abilities-during-planarian-development/

#biology #development #flatworms #regeneration #planarians #neoblasts

Axis reset is rate limiting for onset of whole-body regenerative abilities during planarian development - preLights

Heads or Tails? @clarelbooth, @eldavies03, and team characterize the developmental onset of regeneration in the flatworm Schmidtea polychroa

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I attended the #zoodny2024 conference in recent days. My question: Does that place also have planarians? (I'm not counting the ones present on my poster!) Of course, it does have #planarians; the river is cca 100 m from the venue. Here's a regenerating Polycelis sp. from Ostrava.

Happy #FungiFriday! 🏞️ 8AM@JP
#菌曜日 朝8時 🏞️ おはようございます

The ones who live on the #tree protect the tree, and the tree nurtures its residents.🌲

#Planarians eat fungi, and #fungi feed planarians. Everyone is always needed by someone, and no one is #isolated. 🍄🦠

Wishing you a wonderful day👐
 
木の住民は木を守り、#木 は住人を育てます🌲

そこで #プラナリア は菌を食べ、#菌 はプラナリアを養います、常に誰かは誰かに必要で、#孤立 することはないのです🍄🦠

素敵な一日になりますように👐
#aiart #morning #おはよう #PendletonWard #bingimagecreator #bingimagecreater

Monday was #microscopy day on Twitter. So here is some of my last work. Anterior part of Microplana terrestris - land #planarians are almost stupidly fragile so I accidental teared worm apart. Legend and link for interactive hires version is available here http://www.sumie-dh.cz/microplana_head/ #histology #zoology
Microplana histology

Microplana histology

was asked to grab some samples of #planarians that i posted on iNat last week, and now I'm watching them wriggle around very hypnotically on my desk:

(sorry to link the bird site, but seem like easiest way to share video)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1605273658100191232

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) on Twitter

“WORMSSSSSSSSSSS”

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