Schmidtea
| Schmidtea | |
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| Schmidtea mediterranea | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Turbellaria |
| Suborder: | Continenticola |
| Family: | Dugesiidae |
| Genus: | Schmidtea Ball, 1974 |
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Schmidtea is a freshwater planarian genus widely used in regeneration and developmental studies.[2][3]
Until 1991 Schmidtea was considered a Dugesia subgenus, then it was upgraded to the genus rank.[4]
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic tree including five dugesiid genera after Álvarez-Presas et al., 2008:[5]
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References
- ↑
- Tyler S, Schilling S, Hooge M, and Bush LF (comp.) (2006-2012) Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7 Database
- ↑ Saló, E.; Baguñà, J. (2002). "Regeneration in planarians and other worms: New findings, new tools, and new perspectives". Journal of Experimental Zoology 292 (6): 528–539. doi:10.1002/jez.90001. PMID 12115936.
- ↑ Reddien, P. W.; Alvarado, A. S. N. (2004). "Fundamentals of Planarian Regeneration". Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 20: 725–757. doi:10.1146/annurev.cellbio.20.010403.095114. PMID 15473858.
- ↑ De Vries, E. J.; Sluys, R. (1991). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola)". Journal of Zoology 223 (1): 103–116. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04752.x.
- ↑ Álvarez-Presas, M.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2008). "Molecular phylogeny of land and freshwater planarians (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes): From freshwater to land and back". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (2): 555–568. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.032. PMID 18359250.
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