C. elegans feeding defective mutants have shorter body lengths and increased autophagy.

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BACKGROUND: Mutations that cause feeding defects in the nematode C. elegans are known to increase life span. Here we show that feeding defective mutants also have a second general trait in common, namely that they are small. RESULTS: Our measurements of the body lengths of a variety of feeding defective mutants, or of a variety of double mutants affecting other pathways that regulate body length in C. elegans,...

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