DBehaviorFIG 1: Larval nictation and flipping behaviors for dispersal.

DBehaviorFIG 1: Dauers performing nicataion behavior.

C. elegans dauers performing nictation behavior from the tips of pointed moss leaf tips. In the lower-left of the field, a single dauer is nictating alone. A large mass of dauers nictating together is shown in the center and right regions of the field. (Image source: Marie-Anne Felix, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS.)

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