Specifications Table

Subject area	Biology
More specific subject area	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (General); Bioinformatics
Type of data	Table, text file, graph, figure
How data was acquired	RNA sequencing, Illumina NextSeq 500
Data format	FASTQ
Experimental factors	Extraction of total RNA from Caenorhabditis elegans fed E. coli OP50 or E. coli HB101 diets
Experimental features	Sequencing of polyadenylated mRNA followed by bioinformatics analysis for transcript analysis and variance assessment
Data source location	New York, United States, Pace University; Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Data accessibility	The nucleotide sequences of raw reads were submitted to NCBI's Sequence Read Archive through the BioProject PRJNA412551 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA412551/)
Related research article	MacNeil, L. T., Watson, E., Arda, H. E., Zhu, L. J. & Walhout, A. J. M. Diet-induced developmental acceleration independent of TOR and insulin in C. elegans. Cell153, 240–252 (2013).