Unusually Large Number of Mutations in Asexually Reproducing Clonal Planarian Dugesia japonica: e0143525

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 11
• Main Authors: Nishimura, Osamu, Hosoda, Kazutaka, Kawaguchi, Eri, Yazawa, Shigenobu, Hayashi, Tetsutaro, Inoue, Takeshi, Umesono, Yoshihiko, Agata, Kiyokazu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.11.2015
• Subjects: Dugesia japonica

We established a laboratory clonal strain of freshwater planarian (Dugesia japonica) that was derived from a single individual and that continued to undergo autotomous asexual reproduction for more than 20 years, and we performed large-scale genome sequencing and transcriptome analysis on it. Despit...