… sites, species identification, taxonomic notes, and accession numbers to digital reference
material deposited on the online Macrostomorpha Taxonomy and Phylogeny database, an …

… deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive database (accession no. SRP059553). … has
been deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive database (accession no. SRP059553). …

Regeneration-capable flatworms are informative research models to study the mechanisms
of stem cell regulation, regeneration, and tissue patterning. However, the lack of …

Sex allocation theory is considered as a touchstone of evolutionary biology, providing some
of the best supported examples for Darwinian adaptation. In particular, Hamilton's local mate …

… 2009b), with more male-biased individuals having a higher sperm production rate that is
reflected by larger testes and a faster replenishment of the seminal vesicle (Schärer and Vizoso …

Evolutionary theory predicts that males should produce more sperm when sperm
competition is high. Because sperm production rate is difficult to measure in most organisms, …

Estimates of phenoloxidase (PO) activity have been suggested as a useful indicator of
immunocompetence in arthropods, with the idea that high PO activity would indicate high …

Over the past decade, the free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano has been successfully
used in many areas of biology, including embryology, stem cells, sexual selection, …

… Although feelers are able to penetrate different types of epithelia (DB Vizoso, unpubl. data),
we do not think that they go beyond the cellular valve and penetrate the egg. First, the way …

… Such rare events have repeatedly occurred also in large-scale experiments and in
routine laboratory maintenance (Vizoso DB, Marie-Orleach L., and Schärer L., unpublished …