Extended Data Figure 2: Behaviors unaffected by starvation or additional adult development.
(a) SDS avoidance response is unchanged in day 2 adults. Left panel shows predicted synaptic input into avoidance behavior by relevant amphid and phasmid neurons1,5. Each dot represents the average reversal index of one animal over 10 experimental trials, median shown with vertical magenta bar. p-values shown by two-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
(b) Male mate-searching behavior is unaffected following L1 starvation. Each dot represents the average distance one male traveled away from a bacterial lawn at four time points over 12 hours (n=48 animals control, 20 animals “L1 starved”), in the absence of hermaphrodites. Magenta bars indicate median, black boxes indicate quartiles. p-values shown by two-tailed t-test. In contrast, we did find mate-searching defects in adult males following recovery from dauer, suggesting that these males may have additional changes to the nervous system (data not shown).