{"title":"Bipolarity in planarians is not induced by space travel.","authors":"Ronald Sluys, Giacinta A Stocchino","doi":"10.1002/reg2.90","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Available evidence strongly suggests that alternative, Earth-bound explanations should be sought first for the occurrence of a single bipolar planarian flatworm returning from space travel. Double-headed worms have been amply documented as arising under experimental conditions as well as spontaneously in stock cultures of planarians.</p>","PeriodicalId":90316,"journal":{"name":"Regeneration (Oxford, England)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743782/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Regeneration (Oxford, England)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/reg2.90","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2017/8/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Available evidence strongly suggests that alternative, Earth-bound explanations should be sought first for the occurrence of a single bipolar planarian flatworm returning from space travel. Double-headed worms have been amply documented as arising under experimental conditions as well as spontaneously in stock cultures of planarians.