Abstract
Planarians famously can regenerate after decapitation. In this issue, Abnave etal. (2014) find they resist infection by multiple bacterial species pathogenic to humans, Drosophila and C.elegans, including M.tuberculosis. These results identify a conserved gene controlling phagocytosis and establish planarians as a powerful system for analyzing host-pathogen interactions.
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