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Allison M Box1, Laura Buttitta1
1University of Michigan, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Developmental Cell
|July 27, 2021
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In this issue of Developmental Cell, Cohen et al. show that the Drosophila hindgut is a genetically tractable model for studying tissue regeneration. This tissue exhibits different regeneration strategies at different developmental times, demonstrating that the hindgut developmental clock, not tissue type, dictates the mode and capacity for regeneration.
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