Male stolen (right hand side): one of the worm's independent reproductive units (IMAGE)

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Male stolen (right hand side): one of the worm's independent reproductive units

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Male stolen (right hand side): one of the independent reproductive units – growing at the tip of a branch of the worm’s body. It has sprouted eyes and will go swimming free to find a stolon of the opposite sex with which to reproduce. The research showed stolons showed localised upregulation of genes related to eye development. Length of the stolon: approx. 1.5 millimetres.

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Maria Teresa Aguado and Guillermo Ponz-Segrelles; BMC Genomics, DOI: 10.1186/s12864-025-11587-w; licensed under CC BY 4.0

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