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daf-12 regulates developmental age and the dauer alternative in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Apr 1998
Antebi A, Culotti J G, Hedgecock E M
Abstract excerpt
From egg through adult, C. elegans has six life stages including an option for dauer formation and diapause at larval stage L3 in adverse environments. Somatic cells throughout the organism make consistent choices and advance in unison, suggesting a mechanism of coordinate regulation at these stage transitions. Earlier studies showed that daf-12, which encodes a nuclear receptor (W. Yeh, 1991, Doctoral Thesis....
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