Selected Articles

Cebrià, F., Guo, T., Jopek, J., and P. A. Newmark. 2007. Regulation of midline regeneration and maintenance by a planarian slit orthologue. Developmental Biology 307: 394-406.
Wang, Y., Zayas, R.M., Guo, T., and P. A. Newmark. 2007. nanos function is essential for development and regeneration of planarian germ cells. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 104: 5901-5906.
Cebrià, F. and P. A. Newmark. 2007. Morphogenesis defects are associated with abnormal nervous system regeneration following roboA RNAi in planarians. Development 134: 833-837.
Guo, T., Peters, A.H.F.M., and P.A. Newmark. 2006. A bruno-like gene is required for stem cell maintenance in planarians. Developmental Cell 11: 159-169.
Zayas, R.M., Hernández, A, Habermann, B., Wang, Y., Stary, J.M., and P. A. Newmark. 2005. The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea as a model for epigenetic germ cell specification: analysis of ESTs from the hermaphroditic strain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 18491-18496.
Cebrià, F. and P.A. Newmark. 2005. Planarian homologues of netrin and netrin receptor are required for proper regeneration of the central nervous system and the maintenance of nervous system architecture. Development 132: 3691-3703.
Zayas, R.M., Bold, T.D., and P.A. Newmark. 2005. Spliced leader trans-splicing in freshwater planarians. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 2048-2054.
Newmark, P.A. 2005. Opening a new can of worms: a large-scale RNAi screen in planarians (Preview). Dev. Cell 8: 623-624.
Newmark, P.A. , Reddien, P.W., Cebrià, F., and A. Sánchez Alvarado. 2003. Ingestion of bacterially expressed double-stranded RNA inhibits gene expression in planarians. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100 (suppl. 1): 11861-11865.
Oviedo, N., Newmark, P.A. and A. Sánchez Alvarado. 2003. Allometric scaling and proportion regulation in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Dev. Dyn. 226: 326-333.
Sánchez Alvarado, A.*, Newmark, P. A.*, Robb, S., and Juste, R. 2002. The Schmidtea mediterranea database as a molecular resource for studying platyhelminthes, stem cells and regeneration. Development 129: 5659-5665. *authors contributed equally to the work
Newmark, P. A. and A. Sánchez Alvarado. 2002. Not your father’s planarian: a classic model enters the era of functional genomics. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 210-219.
Newmark, P. A. and A. Sánchez Alvarado. 2001. Regeneration in planaria. in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group, London, www.els.net.
Newmark, P. A. and A. Sánchez Alvarado. 2000. Bromodeoxyuridine specifically labels the regenerative stem cells of planarians. Dev. Biol. 220: 142-153.
Sánchez Alvarado, A. and P. A. Newmark. 1999. Double-stranded RNA specifically disrupts gene expression during planarian regeneration. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 5049-5054.
Sánchez Alvarado, A. and P. A. Newmark. 1998. The use of planarians to dissect the molecular basis of metazoan regeneration. Wound Repair Regen. 6: 413-420.

Correspondence

Newmark, P. A. and A. Sánchez. 1997. Regeneration and scientific terminology. BioEssays 19: 535.