Figure 4.

Short‐term starvation (STS) abolishes meiotic activity during stress, but markedly enhances this activity during poststress ages in adult male C. elegans. (a) EdU incorporation rate in testes of D4 adult males that had been starved for 2 days at 22°C. More than 50 testes from each age‐group were examined for the presence of EdU‐labeled nuclei after labeling for 6 hr. (b) Meiotic activity in testes of adult males of different ages maintained at 22°C. In the starved group, adult males were starved from D2 to D4. More than 50 testes from each age‐group were analyzed. (c) Meiotic division activity in testes of D10 adult males subjected to STS treatments earlier as shown in Figure 1a and maintained at 22°C. More than 50 testes from each age‐group were analyzed. (d) Translocation efficiency of EdU‐labeled nuclei in testes of D10 adult males previously subjected to different STS stress treatments as shown in Figure 1a. More than 50 testes from each age‐group were examined for the localization of EdU‐labeled nuclei after labeling for 24 hr