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Following the 'BATT Signal:' A new signaling pathway controlling planarian germ cells - EurekAlert


Biogenic monoamines — molecules like dopamine and serotonin — are famous for their role as the brain’s emissaries of mood, learning and memory, stress mechanisms, and fight-or-flight responses in the body. Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research have added another task for monoamines. They play an important localized role in the reproductive organs of planarian flatworms, and appear to be critical for the development of both female and male germ cells.

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