Regeneration: basic research on living systems, not technology.
Also: Anolis carolinensis, anole
Lizards drop their tails and grow new ones.
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| Property | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Differentially expressed genes | 326 | Hutchins 2014 |
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Hutchins and colleagues found 326 genes change during green anole tail regeneration, with growing cells spread along the tail rather than in a tip blastema.
As reported in: Hutchins, Markov, Eckalbar et al. (2014). Transcriptomic Analysis of Tail Regeneration in the Lizard Anolis carolinensis Reveals Activation of Conserved Vertebrate Developmental and Repair Mechanisms. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105004