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Abstract
The ability to regenerate is scattered among the metazoan tree of life. Further still, regenerative capacity varies widely within these specific organisms. Numerous organisms, all with different regenerative capabilities, have been studied at length and key similarities and disparities in how regeneration occurs have been identified. In order to get a better grasp on understanding regeneration as a whole, we must search for new models that are capable of extensive regeneration, as well as those that have been under sampled in the literature. As invertebrate deuterostomes, echinoderms fit both of these requirements. Multiple members regenerate various tissue types at all life stages, including examples of whole-body regeneration. Interrogations in two highly studied echinoderms, the sea urchin and the sea star, have provided knowledge of tissue and whole-body regeneration at various life stages. Work has begun to examine regeneration in echinoderm larvae, a potential new system for understanding regenerative mechanisms in a basal deuterostome. Here, we review the ways these two animals' larvae have been utilized as a model of regeneration.
Figure 1. Sea star bipinnaria larval morphology. Left, a light microscopy image of a larva of a sea star (Patiria miniata). Large structures are easy to identify and tissues are transparent, making both light and fluorescent microscopy advantageous. Right, a schematic of major sea star larval structures.
Figure 2. (A) graphical summary of the results from Cary et al. (2019) [41] examining mechanisms of larval sea star regeneration. Sea star larvae proportion their body size following bisection. This results in regenerated larvae that have similar proportions to that of an uncut larva but a smaller overall size. (B) Soon after bisection, the larval epithelium wound closes and expression of wound-induced genes is seen at the site of damage (blue area). This includes the expression of genes such as Elk and Egr and the localization of phosphorylated-ERK. (C) Subsequent to a reduction in overall cell proliferation early in regeneration (green circles), a cluster of proliferative cells emerges specifically at the injury site, akin to a regeneration blastema. (D) Loss of expression of genes along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis is recovered as regeneration proceeds. Many of these genes are components of the canonical Wnt-signaling pathway.
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