Tourists spending a recuperative holiday on the Italian coast may be envious of the regenerative abilities of locally found flatworm M. lignano. Named for an Italian beach town, the tiny worm can ...

The serotonergic elements of the nervous system and the morphology of the copulatory stylet and gland cells in the pharyngeal gland ring were studied in two closely related turbellarians, Macrostomum ...

THE macrostomid rhabdocoel Macrostomum tuba has its main distribution in central and southern Europe and Japan, and appears to be absent from northern Eurasia 1,2. It has been found, however, in a few ...

Failing to find a mating partner is a dent to the reproductive prospects of any animal, but in the flatworm species Macrostomum hystrix it might involve a real headache. Zoologists have discovered the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Evolutionary theory predicts that more resources are allocated to sperm production when sperm competition is high. This prediction is ...

In the wet sands of Italy’s beaches, an epic battle of the sexes is playing out. The combatants are flatworms and though their bodies are simple, their sexual habits are anything but. Take the common ...

Macrostomum lignano can regenerate its whole body other than its brain Lukas Schärer/Flickr A tiny species of flatworm that can generate its entire body except its brain has been described as a ...

Hermaphroditic species face a fundamental question: how much energy should they expend on their male and female sides? Flatworms have found various answers to this question over the course of ...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Tourists spending a recuperative holiday on the Italian coast may be envious of the regenerative abilities of locally found flatworm Macrostomum lignano. Named for its ...