Studies focusing regeneration are incomplete without considering autotomy (Maginnis 2006). According to this author, autotomy is the process of limb loss, allowing multiple benefits to an organism (the most prevalent is predator avoidance), commonly improving the immediate survivorship. Factors such as contact with toxins and pesticides, long limbs stuck in crevasses during foraging, crabs harv...

Autophagy is a lysosomal degradation pathway that is essential for survival, differentiation, development, and homeostasis. Autophagy principally serves an adaptive role to protect organisms against diverse pathologies, including infections, cancer, neurodegeneration, aging, and heart disease. However, in certain experimental disease settings, the self-cannibalistic or, paradoxically, even the ...