An ancient split of germline and somatic stem cell lineages in Hydra
Chiemi Nishimiya‐Fujisawa, Hendrik O. Petersen, Tracy Chih-Ting Koubková-Yu, Chiyo Noda, Shuji Shigenobu, Josephine Bageritz, Toshitaka Fujisawa, Oleg Simakov, Satoru Kobayashi, Thomas W. Holstein
The paper identifies two distinct stem cell lineages in Hydra, germline and somatic, and finds shared stemness genes with origins in unicellular eukaryotes.
bioRxiv · Jul 4, 2023 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology