Diapause and Developmental Arrest as Drivers of Population Resilience Through Stress
Galayna Baur, Elizabeth Bone, Heather Moore, Logan Elliott, Alexis Ham, Molly Ripper, Andrea Scharf
This study examines how dauer formation and L1 arrest in C. elegans affect population resilience under stress, showing that daf-16 and daf-22 mutants have different recovery abilities and stage distributions compared to wild type.
bioRxiv · Jul 20, 2026 · PreprintGenetics