Transgenerational Sterility of Piwi Mutants Represents a Dynamic Form of Adult Reproductive Diapause

Summary: Environmental stress can induce adult reproductive diapause, a state of developmental arrest that temporarily suspends reproduction. Deficiency for C. elegans Piwi protein PRG-1 results in strains that reproduce for many generations but then become sterile. We found that sterile-generation...

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Main Authors: Bree Heestand, Matt Simon, Stephen Frenk, Denis Titov, Shawn Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-04-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718303449