SELECTED PAPERS

• Comparative transcriptomic analyses and single-cell RNA sequencing of the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea identify major cell types and pathway conservation.
  Swapna LS, Molinaro AM, Lindsay-Mosher N, Pearson BJ, Parkinson J
  Genome Biology. 2018 Aug 24;19(1):124. doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1498-x.

• The true colours of the flatworm: Mechanisms of pigment biosynthesis and pigment cell lineage development in planarians.
  Lindsay-Mosher N, Pearson BJ
  Seminars in Developmental Biology. 2018 May 21. pii: S1084-9521(17)30194-5. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.05.010.

• The planarian TCF/LEF factor Smed-tcf1 is required for the regeneration of dorsal-lateral neuronal subtypes.
  David D.R. Brown, Alyssa M. Molinaro, and Bret J. Pearson
  Developmental Biology. 2018 433:374-384.

• FOX and ETS family transcription factors regulate the pigment cell lineage in planarians.
  He X, Lindsay-Mosher N, Li Y, Molinaro AM, Pellettieri J, Pearson BJ.
  Development. 2017 Dec 15;144(24):4540-4551.

• Yorkie is required to restrict the injury responses in planarians.
  Lin AYT, Pearson BJ.
  PLoS Genetics. 2017; 13(7):e1006874.

• A Brain Unfixed: Unlimited Neurogenesis and Regeneration of the Adult Planarian Nervous System.
  Brown DDR, Pearson BJ.
  Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2017; 11:289.

• Neuronal sources of hedgehog modulate neurogenesis in the adult planarian brain.
  Currie KW, Molinaro AM, Pearson BJ.
  eLife. 2016 Nov 19;5.

• In silico lineage tracing through single cell transcriptomics identifies a neural stem cell population in planarians.
  Molinaro AM, Pearson BJ.
  Genome Biology. 2016 Apr 27;17:87.

• HOX gene complement and expression in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea.
  Currie KW, Brown DD, Zhu S, Xu C, Voisin V, Bader GD, Pearson BJ.
  Evodevo. 2016 Mar 30;7:7.

• A mex3 homolog is required for differentiation during planarian stem cell lineage development.
  Zhu SJ, Hallows SE, Currie KW, Xu C, Pearson BJ.
  eLife. 2015 Jun 26;4.

• Planarian yorkie/YAP functions to integrate adult stem cell proliferation, organ homeostasis and maintenance of axial patterning.
  Lin AY, Pearson BJ.
  Development. 2014 Mar;141(6):1197-208.

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