C. elegans feed yolk to their young in a form of primitive lactation

CC Kern, SJ Townsend, A Salzmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits rapid senescence that is promoted by the
insulin/IGF-1 signalling (IIS) pathway via regulated processes that are poorly understood. IIS …

Semelparous death as one element of iteroparous aging gone large

CC Kern, D Gems - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The aging process in semelparous and iteroparous species is different, but how different?
Death in semelparous organisms (eg, Pacific salmon) results from suicidal reproductive …

Reproductive Suicide: Similar Mechanisms of Aging in C. elegans and Pacific Salmon

D Gems, CC Kern, J Nour, M Ezcurra - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In some species of salmon, reproductive maturity triggers the development of massive
pathology resulting from reproductive effort, leading to rapid post-reproductive death. Such …

A Year at the Forefront of Proteostasis and Aging

MA Thompson, EA De-Souza - Biology Open, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
During aging, animals experience a decline in proteostasis activity, including loss of stress-
response activation, culminating in the accumulation of misfolded proteins and toxic …

Fusion and expansion of vitellogenin vesicles during Caenorhabditis elegans intestinal senescence

C Zhai, N Zhang, XX Li, X Chen, F Sun, MQ Dong - Aging Cell, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Some of the most conspicuous aging phenotypes of C. elegans are related to post‐
reproductive production of vitellogenins (Vtg), which form yolk protein (YP) complexes after …

Semelparity and reproductive death in Caenorhabditis elegans

D Gems, C Kern, J Nour, M Ezcurra - 2020 - preprints.org
In some species of salmon, reproductive maturity triggers the development of massive
pathology resulting from reproductive effort, leading to rapid post-reproductive death. Such …

C. elegans provide milk for their young

CC Kern, SJ Townsend, A Salzmann, NB Rendell… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Adult C. elegans hermaphrodites exhibit severe senescent pathology that begins to develop
within days of reaching sexual maturity (;;;). For example, after depletion of self-sperm …

Old Age Drives Fusion and Expansion of Vitellogenin Vesicles in the Intestine of Caenorhabditis elegans

C Zhai, N Zhang, XX Li, X Chen, F Sun, MQ Dong - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Some of the most conspicuous aging phenotypes of C. elegans are related to post-
reproductive production of vitellogenins (Vtg), which form yolk protein (YP) complexes after …

[图书][B] Ageing through Reproductive Death in Caenorhabditis elegans

CC Kern - 2021 - search.proquest.com
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as one of the premier model
systems for ageing research. Its use has led to the discovery of many biological mechanisms …