Kate MacCord and Duygu submitted a review discussing germline immortality and continuity in light of recent research on induced pluripotent stem cells and germline regeneration in several different research organisms.
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A) Which component of the germline is immortal and continuous? Stars: points of change. Cells originating from germline (G) in blue, from soma (S) in yellow. B) Distribution of germline regeneration across animal phyla. Gray indicates the phylogenetic location of traditional model organisms which cannot regenerate the germline in vivo (indicated by "X"). Check marks indicate clades in which there is evidence for germline regeneration.