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A hypothesis for the tissue specificity of nematode parasites.
Experimental parasitology - 1 May 1998
Rajan T V
Abstract excerpt
Recent work from Riddle and coworkers has shown that in the free-living soil nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, the decision to become a developmentally arrested, dispersal form known as the dauer ("enduring") larva is controlled, at least in part, by transcription of a wild-type allele at the daf-7 locus. daf-7 mutants are "constitutive dauers." Using this model as a general paradigm for nematode development, I...
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