Germ cell apoptosis is critical to maintain Caenorhabditis elegans offspring viability in stressful environments.
Maintaining reproduction in highly variable, often stressful, environments is an essential challenge for all organisms. Even transient exposure to mild environmental stress may directly damage germ cells or simply tax the physiology of an individual, making it difficult to produce quality gametes. I...
| Published in: | PLoS ONE |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0260573&type=printable |
