<I>Schmidtea mediterranea</I> (IMAGE)

University of California - San Francisco

<I>Schmidtea mediterranea</I>

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The freshwater flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea lives in southern Europe and Northern Africa is the first animal ever discovered without a crucial structure inside its cells known as the centrosome.

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UCSF/J.Azimzadeh

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