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Although the complete removal of miRNA functions causes embryonic lethality or infertility in worms, a partial disruption of overall miRNA functions by mutating either ain-1 or ain-2 provides an effective way to investigate miRNA functions (16, 17). However, we found that the reporter transgene with the lin-42 3′UTR was significantly repressed in wild-type worms, but derepressed in the mir-71(lf) worms (Fig. 4 H and I). This is consistent with hbl-1 being one of the downstream targets of miR-71, although this modest effect alone is not expected to account for the vulval developmental phenotype in mir-71 mutant. In starved L1 worms, we detected only a slight increase in the mRNA level of hbl-1 in mir-71 mutants compared with that in wild type (∼10%), which may not be biologically significant. In contrast, the mir-71(lf) mutant worms recovering on hbl-1(RNAi) displayed precocious VPC divisions similar to that seen in wild type (Fig. 4E).

• However, it remains unclear how, and to what extent, miRNAs coordinate animal survival and development in response to stresses.
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• Upon entering L1 diapause, RNA polymerase II quickly accumulates and pauses at promoter regions, and this accumulation was speculated to stop transcription and facilitate the immediate reinitiation of gene expression when food becomes available (2).
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