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3350212

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-4-25
pubmed:abstractText
The development, ultrastructure, and genetics of two mutants that form dauer-like larvae have been characterized. Dauer larva morphogenesis is initiated regardless of environmental stimuli, and it is incomplete or abnormal. The resistance to detergent characteristic of normal dauer larvae is not fully achieved, and the mutants are unable to exit from the dauer-like state of developmental arrest. Mutant life span is not extended beyond the three weeks characteristic of the nondauer life cycle, whereas normal dauer larvae can live for several months. Growth of daf-15(m81)IV, the less dauer-like of the two, is nearly arrested at the second (dauer-specific) molt, but feeding is not completely suppressed. Head shape, cuticle, and intestinal ultrastructure are nondauer, whereas sensory structures (amphid and deirid) and excretory gland morphology are intermediate between that of dauer and nondauer stages. The daf-9(e1406)X mutant is dauer-like in head shape, cuticle, and deirid ultrastructure, intermediate in amphid and inner labial neuron morphology, and nondauer or abnormal in the intestine. Also, the daf-9 mutant exhibits abnormalities in the pharyngeal arcade cell processes and pharyngeal g1 gland. Double mutants carrying both daf-9 and daf-15 are more resistant to detergent than either single mutant. Like the single mutants, they cannot complete morphogenesis, and they are unable to exit from the dauer-like stage. Both daf-9 and daf-15 mutations are epistatic to previously described dauer-defective mutations, indicating that these two genes act late in the pathway leading to the dauer larva. The genetic tests and the mutant ultrastructure suggest that the two genes may affect parallel pathways of morphogenesis.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0012-1606
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
126
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
270-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans that form dauer-like larvae.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.