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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Dev Biol. 2017 May 24;6(5):10.1002/wdev.278. doi: 10.1002/wdev.278

Figure 3. The dauer formation decision pathway.

Figure 3

The decision to enter dauer begins with environmental components and proceeds through two parallel pathways before converging onto a lipid hormone signalling pathway. Mutating the encoding genes of this pathway may lead to either constitutive dauer formation (daf-c, dauer formation constitutive) or an inability to form dauers (daf-d, dauer formation defective). Lines ending with arrows indicate increased activity of the downstream component. Lines ending with bars indicate suppression or downregulation of the downstream component.