NAD+ Is a Food Component That Promotes Exit from Dauer Diapause in Caenorhabditis elegans.

NAD+ Is a Food Component That Promotes Exit from Dauer Diapause in Caenorhabditis elegans.

The free-living soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans adapts its development to the availability of food. When food is scarce and population density is high, worms enter a developmentally arrested non-feeding diapause stage specialized for long-term survival called the dauer larva. When food becomes...

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Main Authors: Mykola Mylenko, Sebastian Boland, Sider Penkov, Julio L Sampaio, Benoit Lombardot, Daniela Vorkel, Jean-Marc Verbavatz, Teymuras V Kurzchalia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5132307?pdf=render

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