Selected Articles

King, R.S. and P. A. Newmark. 2012. The cell biology of regeneration. J. Cell Biol. 196: 553-562.
Rouhana, L., Vieira, A.P., Roberts-Galbraith, R.H., and P. A. Newmark. 2012. PRMT5 and the role of symmetrical dimethylarginine in chromatoid bodies of planarian stem cells. Development 139: 1083-1094.
Miller, C.M. and P. A. Newmark. 2012. An insulin-like peptide regulates size and adult stem cells in planarians. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 56: 75-82.
Chong, T., Stary, J.M., Wang, Y., and P. A. Newmark. 2011. Molecular markers to characterize the hermaphroditic reproductive system of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. BMC Dev. Biol. 11: 69.
Forsthoefel, D.J., Park, A.E., and P. A. Newmark. 2011. Stem cell-based growth, regeneration, and remodeling of the planarian intestine. Dev. Biol. 356: 445-459.
Cogswell A.A., Collins J.J. III, Newmark, P.A., and D.L. Williams. 2011. Whole mount in situ hybridization methodology for Schistosoma mansoni. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 178: 46-50.
Collins J.J. III, King R.S., Cogswell A., Williams D.L., and P. A. Newmark. 2011. An Atlas for Schistosoma mansoni Organs and Life-Cycle Stages Using Cell Type-Specific Markers and Confocal Microscopy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(3): e1009 (featured image). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001009.
Collins, J.J., Hou, X., Romanova, E.V., Lambrus, B.G., Miller, C.M., Saberi, A., Sweedler, J.V., and P. A. Newmark. 2010. Genome-wide analyses reveal a role for peptide hormones in regulating planarian germline development. PLoS Biology 8(10): e1000509. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000509.
Wang, Y., Stary, J.M., Wilhelm, J.E., and P. A. Newmark. 2010. A functional genomic screen in planarians identifies novel regulators of germ cell development. Genes & Development 24: 2081-2092 (cover).
Zayas, R.M., Cebrià, F., Guo, T., Feng, J., and P. A. Newmark. 2010. The use of lectins as markers for differentiated secretory cells in planarians. Developmental Dynamics 239: 2888-2897.
Forsthoefel, D.J. and P. A. Newmark. 2009. Emerging patterns in planarian regeneration. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 19: 412-420 (cover).
Newmark, P.A., Wang, Y., and T. Chong. 2008. Germ cell specification and regeneration in planarians. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 73: 573-581.
Cebrià, F., Guo, T., Jopek, J., and P. A. Newmark. 2007. Regeneration and maintenance of the planarian midline is regulated by a slit orthologue. Developmental Biology 307: 394-406 (cover).
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 (cover).
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.