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  • Developmental Biology
  • Regenerative Medicine
  • Animal Behavior

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  • Metazoan body size and shape diversity arise from differential growth and patterning.
  • The mechanisms coordinating tissue size and function are not fully understood.
  • Planarians exhibit bidirectional body size scaling and size-dependent asexual reproduction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the link between size and function in planarian asexual reproduction.
  • To identify mechanisms coordinating planarian body size, patterning, and behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Optimized planarian fission protocol in Schmidtea mediterranea.
  • RNA interference (RNAi) screen of anterior-posterior patterning genes.
  • Inhibition of Wnt and TGFβ signaling during planarian growth.

Main Results:

  • Progeny number and fission frequency correlate with parent planarian size.
  • Fission progeny size is determined by fixed, mechanically vulnerable planes.
  • TGFβ and Wnt signaling pathways regulate fission frequency, not fission plane position.
  • Wnt and TGFβ inhibition alters mechanosensory neuron patterning and fission behavior.

Conclusions:

  • TGFβ and Wnt signaling pathways play a crucial role in regulating size-dependent reproductive behavior in planarians.
  • This study reveals an interdependence between patterning, growth, and neurological function in size regulation.
  • Mechanosensory neuron patterning is linked to body size and influences fission behavior.