Abstract
In Caenorhabditis elegans, many genes involved in the formation of the cuticle are also known to influence body size and shape. We assessed post-embryonic growth of both long and short C. elegans body size mutants from the L1 to L4 stage. We found similar developmental trajectories of N2 and lon-3 animals. By contrast, we observed overall decreases in body length and increases in body width of tested dpy mutants compared to N2, consistent with the Dpy phenotype. We further show that the dynamics of animal shape in the mutant strains are consistent with a previously proposed "Stretcher" growth model.
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