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Demonstrates the role of epigenetic bioelectric software.
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- Homeostatic SetpointaboutLarge-scale organizational target that organisms maintain despite changes to parts; enables flexible achievement through multiple molecular mechanisms.
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- Demonstrates that anatomical outcomes can be reprogrammed at the bioelectric level independently of DNA, inverting the software/hardware metaphor
- From Sullivan et al. 2016 and Emmons-Bell et al. 2015; demonstrates that large morphospace distances can be crossed by physiological manipulation.
- From Durant et al. 2017; shows bioelectric pattern memory is reprogrammable without genomic change.
- Transient bioelectric perturbation with ion channel drugs/RNAi permanently alters the number of heads regenerated even in subsequent rounds without further treatment, demonstrating bioelectric pattern memory.
- Shows that morphological attractors can be switched via physiological cues, revealing the navigation of morphospace by collectives.
- From Oviedo et al. (2010) and Durant et al. (2017), shows memory of anatomical set points beyond genomic default.
- Bioelectric perturbation permanently alters planarian head number to two-headed or zero-headedfinding0.819Manipulation of Vmem via gap junction or ion channel drugs rewrites pattern memory, causing planaria to regenerate with stable, heritable aberrant head numbers.
- Finding showing genetic heterogeneity is not necessary for organismic individuality