Chapter 13 - Bibliography

Baguñá, J. 1998. Planarians. In Cellular and Molecular Basis of Regeneration: From Invertebrates to Humans, P. Ferretti and J. Géraudie (eds.). John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., New York, pp. 135–165. A superb and comprehensive review of what is presently known about planarian regeneration.

Baguñá, J., E. Saló, J. Collett, C. Auladell and M. Ribas. 1988. Cellular, molecular, and genetic approaches to regeneration and pattern formation in planarians. Fortschr. Zool. 36: 65–78. A concise, well-written review of planarian regeneration studies, dealing less with theoretical models than with descriptive analysis of the process.

Brøndsted, H. V. 1969. Planarian Regeneration. Pergamon Press, Oxford. This is a classic. Its almost encyclopedic record of previous experiments is invaluable. If in riffling through its pages you find the same experiments you are doing, do not be discouraged. All good experiments are worth repeating.

Chandebois, R. 1984. Intercalary regeneration and level interactions in the freshwater planarian, Dugesia lugubris. II. Evidence for independent antero-posterior and medio-lateral self-regulating systems. Roux Arch. Dev. Biol. 194: 390–396. This is the second in a series of three papers in the same journal. The inventiveness of the experiments to test models of regeneration make the papers well worth examining.

French, V., P. J. Bryant and S. V. Bryant. 1976. Pattern regulation in epimorphic fields. Science 193: 969–981. The authors of the polar coordinate model excited the world of regeneration studies with this presentation of their model. Though very readable, it can be found in an even more palatable style in a later article, “Biological regeneration and pattern formation,” in the July 1977 issue of Scientific American.

Galtsoff, P. S., F. E. Lutz, P. S. Welch and J. G. Needham (eds.). 1959. Culture Methods for Invertebrate Animals. Dover Publishing, New York. This is a republication of a work originally published in 1937 and is still worthy of another printing. It is an excellent source of the nitty-gritty details that are needed for culturing animals in the laboratory.

Garcia-Fernández, J., J. Baguñá and E. Saló. 1991. Planarian homeobox genes: Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88: 7338–7342. A truly exciting paper, this marks the first genetic study to find homeobox genes in the planaria.

Gilbert, S. F. 1991. Developmental Biology, 3rd Ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. An earlier edition of the text currently in use. It includes a diagram on page 615 that is useful in studying the gradient diffusion model of positional information.

Goss, R. J. 1969. Principles of Regeneration. Academic Press, New York. This is a delightfully written book. It is ageless and well worth reading with an excellent chapter on planarians.

Gremigni, V. 1988. Planarian regeneration: An overview of some cellular mechanisms. Zool. Sci. 5: 1153–1163. A concise review, this concentrates primarily on blastema formation and the origin of blastema cells.

Kato, K., H. Orii, K. Watanabe and K. Agata. 1999. The role of dorso-ventral interaction in the onset of planarian regneration. Development 126: 1031–1040. An intriguing paper that suggests that the trigger to regeneration in planarians is the juxtaposition of dorsal and ventral epithelia during wound healing.

Malacinski, G. M. and S. V. Bryant (eds.). 1984. Pattern Formation: A Primer in Developmental Biology. Macmillan, New York. An important collection of papers on regeneration. Though none is specifically on planarian regeneration, a number of models are discussed, including the polar coordinate model.

Mead, R. W. 1991. Effect of timing of cutting on patterning and proportion regulation during regeneration of the planarian Dugesia tigrina. In Turbellarian Biology, S. Tyler (ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 25–30. This is one of the landmark papers in planarian regeneration that will help to fine-tune investigations. By showing that small increments of time are important factors in pattern formation, it will allow geneticists and biochemists to focus their studies within specific time frames.

Mead, R. W. and J. Christman. 1998. Proportional regulation in the planarian Dugesia tigrina following regeneration of structures. Hydrobiologia 383: 105–109. A study that looks at the “normalizing’ of proportion in regenerates after structures have reformed.

Mead, R. W. and M. A. Krump. 1986. Abnormal regeneration in the planarian Dugesia tigrina as a function of the length:width ratio of the regenerating fragment. J. Exp. Zool. 239: 355–364. Another paper from Robert Mead’s laboratory; this one focuses attention on the fine parameters of regeneration, showing that the ratio of dimensions of a piece of planarian rather than absolute dimensions determines patterns of regeneration. This is an extremely important clue for figuring out pattern formation and must be fit into any model of positional information.

Morgan, T. H. 1898. Experimental studies of the regeneration in Planaria maculata. Arch. Entwicklungsmech. Org. (Wilhelm Roux) 7: 364–397. For historical reasons alone this should be fascinating to the student of regeneration. The first paper by Thomas Hunt Morgan on his planarian research, it catalogues a number of his experiments and shows the style in which science was reported in these early days.

Orii, H., K. Kato, Y. Umesono, T. Sakurai, K. Agata and K. Watanabe. 1999. The planarian HOM/HOX homeoboxgenes (Plox) expressed along the anteroposterior axis. Dev. Biol. 210: 456–468. This excellent paper gives evidence that homeobox genes help establish anterior-posterior patterning in planarians. It includes a useful chart comparing homeobox genes of a number of organisms.

Rieger, R. M., S. Tyler, J. P. S. Smith III and G.R. Rieger. 1991. Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria. In Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Vol. 3: Platyhelminthes and Nemertinea, F. W. Harrison and B. J. Bogitsch (eds.). Wiley-Liss, New York, pp. 7–140. This is an impressive, well-written chapter on turbellarian biology. You will not find anywhere else such a complete, up-to-date review of all that is known at the light-microscopic and ultrastructural levels about the anatomy of these animals.

Winston, J. E. (ed.). 1999. Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions. American Museum Novitates, Number 3277. American Museum of Natural History, New York. This entire issue of Novitates is devoted to articles on Libbie Hyman, one of the giants in the field of invertebrate zoology who devoted much of her life to the study of flatworms.

Wolff, E. 1961. Recent researches on the regeneration of planaria. In Regeneration, D. Rudnick (ed.). Ronald Press, New York, pp. 53–84. This is an important chapter summarizing the model proposed by Etienne Wolff that gradients of inducer and inhibitor substances are the basis of positional information in planarians.

Wolpert, L. 1978. Pattern formation in biological development. Sci. Am. 239(4): 154–164. This is a beautifully illustrated article, written by the author of the term, “positional information.” It provides an excellent, clear presentation of various models of regeneration.