Regenerative abilities vary dramatically across animals. Even amongst planarian flatworms,
well-known for complete regeneration from tiny body fragments, some species have …

Traumatic insemination is a mating behavior during which the (sperm) donor uses a traumatic
intromittent organ to inject an ejaculate through the epidermis of the (sperm) recipient, …

Free-living flatworms of the genus Macrostomum are small and transparent animals, representing
attractive study organisms for a broad range of topics in evolutionary, developmental, …

Background The African Great Lakes have long been recognized as an excellent location to
study speciation. Most famously, cichlid fishes have radiated in Lake Tanganyika and …

The free‐living flatworm Macrostomum lignano is used as a model in a range of research
fields—including aging, bioadhesion, stem cells, and sexual selection—culminating in the …

Background Sex allocation is the distribution of resources to male or female reproduction. In
hermaphrodites, this concerns an individual’s resource allocation to, for example, the …

The free-living, simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworms of the genus Macrostomum are
increasingly used as model systems in various contexts. In particular, Macrostomum lignano, …

Background The genus Macrostomum consists of small free-living flatworms and contains
Macrostomum lignano, which has been used in investigations of ageing, stem cell biology, …

Background Unlike most free-living platyhelminths, catenulids, the sister group to all
remaining flatworms, do not have eyes. Instead, the most prominent sensory structures in their …

Sexual selection drives the evolution of many striking behaviors and morphologies and should
leave signatures of selection at loci underlying these phenotypes. However, although loci …