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| WBbiopr:00000030 | Public_name | Larval development | |||
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| Summary | During post-embryonic development the temporal and spatial regulation of cellular and molecular mechanisms continue past embryogenesis to give rise to a fully functional adult. Post-embryonic development in C. elegans involves progression of the animal through four larval stages. Post-embryonic development involves further limited somatic cell division and cell death to bring the final total to 959 somatic nuclei in the hermaphrodite and 1031 in the male. Other remarkable processes during this period include cell migrations, neuronal rewiring, and adoption of final cell fates. Under conditions of stress, e.g., starvation, reproductive development ceases and the animal switch to a physiologically distinct developmental program to produce the dauer larva. | ||||
| Other_name | Post-embryonic development | ||||
| Related_topic | Specialisation_of | WBbiopr:00000026 | |||
| Involved_entity | Gene | WBGene00002147 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00005044 | |
| WBGene00003970 | Paper_evidence | WBPaper00005044 | |||
| Interaction (13) | |||||
| Associated_with | Phenotype (23) | ||||
| GO_term | GO:0002164 | ||||
| GO:0009791 | |||||
| Reference | WBPaper00005044 | ||||
| WBPaper00027262 |
