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Zoolog Sci ; 38(6): 544-557, 2021 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34854286

ABSTRACT

Sexually mature planarians produce sex-inducing substances that induce postembryonic development of hermaphroditic reproductive organs in asexual freshwater planarians. Although the sex-inducing substances may be useful for elucidating the mechanism underlying this reproductive switch, the available information is limited. The potency of sex-inducing activity is conserved, at least at the order level. Recently, we showed that the sex-inducing activity in the land planarian Bipalium nobile was much higher than that in freshwater planarians. In the present study, we performed bioassay-guided fractionation of the sex-inducing substances produced by B. nobile and propose that crucial sex-inducing activity that triggers complete sexualization for asexual worms of the freshwater planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis is produced by additive and/or synergetic effects of various sex-inducing substances involved in ovarian development. The current study provided an isolation scheme for the minimum-required combination of sex-inducing substances for producing crucial sex-inducing activity.


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Planarians , Animals , Biological Assay , Fresh Water , Plant Extracts , Reproduction, Asexual
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Sci Rep ; 9(1): 11799, 2019 Aug 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31395923

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An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

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Sci Rep ; 9(1): 6132, 2019 04 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30992461

ABSTRACT

Many flatworms can alternate between asexual and sexual reproduction. This is a powerful reproductive strategy enabling them to benefit from the features of the two reproductive modes, namely, rapid multiplication and genetic shuffling. The two reproductive modes are enabled by the presence of pluripotent adult stem cells (neoblasts), by generating any type of tissue in the asexual mode, and producing and maintaining germ cells in the sexual mode. In the current study, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was used to compare the transcriptomes of two phenotypes of the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis: an asexual OH strain and an experimentally sexualized OH strain. Pathway enrichment analysis revealed striking differences in amino acid metabolism in the two worm types. Further, the analysis identified serotonin as a new bioactive substance that induced the planarian ovary de novo in a postembryonic manner. These findings suggest that different metabolic states and physiological conditions evoked by sex-inducing substances likely modulate stem cell behavior, depending on their different function in the asexual and sexual reproductive modes. The combination of RNA-seq and a feeding assay in D. ryukyuensis is a powerful tool for studying the alternation of reproductive modes, disentangling the relationship between gene expression and chemical signaling molecules.


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Amino Acids/metabolism , Ovary/growth & development , Planarians/physiology , Reproduction, Asexual/genetics , Sex Determination Processes/genetics , Animals , Biological Assay , Female , Gene Expression Regulation/physiology , Male , Metabolic Networks and Pathways/genetics , Ovary/metabolism , Pluripotent Stem Cells/metabolism , RNA-Seq , Serotonin/metabolism
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