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A Natural Mutational Event Uncovers a Life History Trade-Off via Hormonal Pleiotropy.
Current biology : CB - 2 Nov 2020
Billard Bénédicte, Vigne Paul, Braendle Christian
Abstract excerpt
Environmental signals often control central life history decisions, including the choice between reproduction and somatic maintenance. Such adaptive developmental plasticity occurs in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, where environmental cues govern whether larvae will develop directly into reproducing adults or arrest their development to become stress-resistant dauer larvae. Here, we identified a natural...
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