# Thermotolerance ontogeny

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**Created:** [May 16, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/thermotolerance-ontogeny/6925 "2023-05-16T12:30:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/thermotolerance-ontogeny/6925/1 "2023-05-16T12:30:50Z")

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Hello! I am looking for a published study that characterizes the heat-sensitivity of C. elegans (or any other kind of animal) across the whole life cycle, from egg to adult. Are some stages more thermotolerant than others? Has such a study indeed been published? Thanks in advance for anyone who can point me to it.

Reason I’m asking: I did some experiments warming up snail embryos, and found that the very youngest (cleavage stages) are by far the most vulnerable to heat-stroke. I wonder if this is generally true of animals. C. elegans would be an obvious model system to find out about… but I haven’t managed to find the study I’m looking for. I’ll ask the fly people if they have anything.