Abstract
Animal regeneration is a biological process leading to the reformation of injured or lost tissues/body parts. One of the most fascinating regenerative phenomena is the so-called whole-body regeneration, leading to the reformation of fully functional organisms within days after bisection. The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is currently emerging as novel whole-body regeneration model. Here we describe the methods of inducing the regenerative process in this cnidarian as well as the fixation and staining protocols for morphological, molecular, and cellular analysis.
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Amiel, A.R., Röttinger, E. (2021). Experimental Tools to Study Regeneration in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis. In: Carroll, D.J., Stricker, S.A. (eds) Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2219. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0974-3_4
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