"Planarians" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Nonparasitic free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria. The most common genera are Dugesia, formerly Planaria, which lives in water, and Bipalium, which lives on land. Geoplana occurs in South America and California.
| Descriptor ID |
D010932
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.736.847.610
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Wnt and TGF? coordinate growth and patterning to regulate size-dependent behaviour. Nature. 2019 08; 572(7771):655-659.