...Katarzyna Modzelewska; Louise Brown; Joseph Culotti; Nadeem Moghal ABSTRACT Long-term survival of an animal species depends on development being robust to environmental variations and climate changes. We used C. elegans to study how mechanisms that sense environmental changes trigger adaptive...

... is poorly understood. In C. elegans , the body wall muscles (BWMs)also have plasma membrane extensions called muscle arms that are guided to the motor axons where they form the postsynaptic element of the NMJ. To investigate the regulation of muscle membrane extension, we screened 871 genes by RNAi...