Monsters in the uterus: A parthenogenetic quasi-program causes teratoma-like tumors during aging in wild-type C. elegans
Hongyuan Wang, Yuan Zhao, Marina Ezcurra, Alexandre Benedetto, Ann F. Gilliat, Josephine E. E. U. Hellberg, Ziyu Ren, Evgeniy R. Galimov, Trin Athigapanich, Johannes Girstmair, Maximilian J. Telford, Colin T. Dolphin, Zhizhou Zhang, David Gems
The paper investigates uterine tumors in C. elegans as a senescent pathology caused by quasi-programs, showing similarities to teratomas and senescence.
npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease · Jun 7, 2018Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology