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From: dave_pilgrim@biology.ualberta.ca (Dave Pilgrm)
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Subject: Re: Conditional L1 Arrest?
Date: 3 Nov 1997 08:24:04 -0800
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In article <63fc6o$hq0@net.bio.net>, JOHN THADEN <JJTHADEN@LIFE.UAMS.EDU>
wrote:

If the arrest itself is important, why not just hatch N2 in the absence of
food? They will arrest at L1 until you feed them.

> I'm looking for a C. elegans strain that arrests at L1
> under some restrictive condition e.g. temperature, but
> is healthy wild-type under the permissive condition.
> If not L1 arrest, then I'd settle for L2 lethal.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> John Thaden, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock AR

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