Jochen Christian Rink

This study examines cave-dwelling planariids in Croatia, revealing multiple genera, increased diversity, and independent cave colonization events, highlighting convergent evolution of cave traits.

This study investigates the evolution of Wnt signaling in flatworms, revealing gene losses and expression divergence that inform the evolutionary origins of regeneration.

This study shows that recombination suppression through chromosomal rearrangements preceded fissiparous asexuality in planarians, reducing the costs of asexuality.

Degenerate COI primers combined with histology, karyology and transcriptomics raise the known Croatian freshwater planarian species from eight to sixteen and describe Dendrocoelum pigmentatum sp. nov.

The paper demonstrates that planarians can maintain long-term heritable gene silencing through a two-phase RNAi mechanism independent of canonical RdRPs.

This study shows that whole-body regeneration in a flatworm occurs without conventional neoblasts, challenging the idea that neoblasts are essential for regeneration.

This study investigates planarian regeneration specificity by examining the role of the cWnt signalling gradient in head and tail formation across two species.

This paper presents chromosome-scale genome assemblies and regulatory element annotations for planarians, revealing conservation of regulatory regions despite rapid structural divergence.

This study quantifies epidermal cell turnover in planarians, revealing basal cell extrusion and intestinal digestion as mechanisms for cell removal.

This paper demonstrates how deep learning-based image restoration extends fluorescence microscopy's capabilities by improving resolution, reducing photon exposure, and increasing frame rates.

This study investigates multi-scale coordination of planar cell polarity in planarians, identifying core pathways that mediate global polarization fields.