Fig. 1.

Thirty-nine percent of the C. elegans genome is differentially expressed during dauer and reproductive development. (A) Experimental design for collecting dauer and reproductively developing daf-9(dh6) animals. The timing of molt events is indicated in parentheses (13). (B and C) Twelve comparisons between the six time points. Arrows are directed from the reference point to the end point of each comparison. (D) Violin plots of the significantly up- and down-regulated genes in each comparison. The numbers of up- and down-regulated genes in each comparison are indicated above and below the violin plot. The fold changes between the replicates of each sequenced time point are plotted for reference (orange and green plots). cD, dauer-committed; cL3, L3-committing; DA, dafachronic acid; hph, hours post hatch.