Transcriptome- and phenotype-based epistasis analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans reveals daf-16/FoxO-dependent and independent effects of daf-2/InsR in L1 starvation and recovery.

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Reduced insulin/IGF signaling (IIS) in Caenorhabditis elegans increases starvation resistance in a daf-16/FoxO-dependent fashion, but it is unclear whether the effects of reduced IIS are entirely dependent on daf-16/FoxO. We used RNA sequencing and phenotypic analysis of L1 starvation resistance to assess epistasis between daf-2/InsR and daf-16/FoxO. We identified 4,653 putative DAF-16/FoxO targets, many of which...

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• Caenorhabditis elegans
• Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
• Epistasis, Genetic
• Forkhead Transcription Factors
• Insulin