Why are L4, and not younger worms, used for ecotoxicity studies? I thought that one would want to treat worms before they reached the L4 stage and their somatic cells became post-mitotic and did not synthesize DNA. Can anyone explain this?
Why are L4, and not younger worms, used for ecotoxicity studies? I thought that one would want to treat worms before they reached the L4 stage and their somatic cells became post-mitotic and did not synthesize DNA. Can anyone explain this?