An atlas of the C. elegans starvation response reveals that transcription is necessary to initiate transcriptional silencing in quiescent primordial germ cells
Jingxian Chen, Sharan Surya, Rojin Chitrakar, Jenna R. Valley, Marcos Francisco Perez, L. Ryan Baugh
The paper creates a cellular atlas of gene expression in fed and starved C. elegans L1 larvae, revealing transcription in starved primordial germ cells and the role of aak-1/AMPK in chromatin compaction.
bioRxiv · Sep 9, 2026 · PreprintGenomics