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An emerging system to study photosymbiosis, brain regeneration, chronobiology, and behavior: the marine acoel symsagittifera roscoffensis

Arboleda, Enrique ; Hartenstein, Volker ; Martinez, Pedro ; Reichert, Heinrich ; Sen, Sonia ; Sprecher, Simon ; Bailly, Xavier

In: BioEssays, 2018, vol. 40, no. 10, p. 1800107

The acoel worm Symsagittifera roscoffensis, an early offshoot of the Bilateria and the only well-studied marine acoel that lives in a photosymbiotic relationship, exhibits a centralized nervous system, brain regeneration, and a wide repertoire of complex behaviors such as circatidal rhythmicity, photo/geotaxis, and social interactions. While this animal can be collected by the thousands and...