diapause

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DAF-12 plays a role in a long-lived quiescent stage called the dauer diapause, which the worms enter in times of starvation and overcrowding.

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  1. noun Zoology A period during which growth or development is suspended and physiological activity is diminished, as in certain insects in response to adverse environmental conditions.

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  • DAF-12 plays a role in a long-lived quiescent stage called the dauer diapause, which the worms enter in times of starvation and overcrowding. —  Baylor College of Medicine News
  • Current address: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America signal to the worms that local conditions are unfavorable for growth (e.g., inadequate food supply or overcrowding), and induce entry into diapause, a process called dauer entry. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Second, what is the metabolic basis for the worm's adaptation during the developmental shift to diapause? —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Thus, transcriptomic analysis of these two different conditions provides complementary information that should prove helpful in comparing dauer-induction and dauer-maintenance gene expression patterns in dauer larvae facing different durations of diapause. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Thus, C. elegans appears to employ a unique strategy to determine which type of diapause will most likely ensure survival upon exposure to different unfavorable environments. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. Greek diapausis, pause, from diapauein, to pause : dia-, between; see dia- + pauein, to stop.

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  1. Greek διά, through, + παῦσις, stopping: see pause.
 

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