An emerging system to study photosymbiosis, brain regeneration, chronobiology, and behavior: the marine acoel symsagittifera roscoffensis
- Arboleda, Enrique Station Biologique de Roscoff, France
- Hartenstein, Volker University of California, Davis, USA
- Martinez, Pedro Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Barcelona, Spain
- Reichert, Heinrich Biology Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Sen, Sonia Institute of Neuroscience, Institute of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Eugene, USA
- Sprecher, Simon G. Biology Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bailly, Xavier Station Biologique de Roscoff, France
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01.10.2018
Published in:
- BioEssays. - 2018, vol. 40, no. 10, p. 1800107
English
The acoel worm Symsagittifera roscoffensis, an early offshoot of the Bilateria and the only well-studied marine acoel that lives in a photosymbiotic relationship, exhibits a centralized nervous system, brain regeneration, and a wide repertoire of complex behaviors such as circatidal rhythmicity, photo/geotaxis, and social interactions. While this animal can be collected by the thousands and is studied historically, significant progress is made over the last decade to develop it as an emerging marine model. The authors here present the feasibility of culturing it in the laboratory and describe the progress made on different areas, including genomic and tissue architectures, highlighting the associated challenges. In light of these developments, and on the ability to access abundant synchronized embryos, the authors put forward S. roscoffensis as a marine system to revisit questions in the areas of photosymbiosis, regeneration, chronobiology, and the study of complex behaviors from a molecular and evolutionary perspective.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
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- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 323316
- DOI 10.1002/bies.201800107
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/307187
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