1.
Hall DH, Altun ZF: C. elegans Atlas. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2008.
2.
Ambros V, Horvitz HR: Heterochronic mutants of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 1984, 226(4673):409-416.
3.
Lee RC, Feinbaum RL, Ambros V: The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity
to lin-14. Cell 1993, 75(5):843-854.
4.
Wightman B, Ha I, Ruvkun G: Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates
temporal pattern formation in C. elegans. Cell 1993, 75(5):855-862.
5.
Moss EG, Lee RC, Ambros V: The cold shock domain protein LIN-28 controls developmental timing in C. elegans and
is regulated by the lin-4 RNA. Cell 1997, 88(5):637-646.
6.
Slack FJ, Basson M, Liu Z, Ambros V, Horvitz HR, Ruvkun G: The lin-41 RBCC gene acts in the C. elegans heterochronic pathway between the let-7
regulatory RNA and the LIN-29 transcription factor. Mol Cell 2000, 5(4):659-669.
7.
Reinhart BJ, Slack FJ, Basson M, Pasquinelli AE, Bettinger JC, Rougvie AE, Horvitz
HR, Ruvkun G: The 21-nucleotide let-7 RNA regulates developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 2000, 403(6772):901-906.
8.
Tsialikas J, Romens MA, Abbott A, Moss EG: Stage-Specific Timing of the microRNA Regulation of lin-28 by the Heterochronic Gene
lin-14 in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 2017, 205(1):251-262.
9.
Abbott AL, Alvarez-Saavedra E, Miska EA, Lau NC, Bartel DP, Horvitz HR, Ambros V:
The let-7 MicroRNA family members mir-48, mir-84, and mir-241 function together to
regulate developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Cell 2005, 9(3):403-414.
10.
Banerjee D, Slack F: Control of developmental timing by small temporal RNAs: a paradigm for RNA-mediated
regulation of gene expression. Bioessays 2002, 24(2):119-129.
11.
Fay DS, Stanley HM, Han M, Wood WB: A Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of hunchback is required for late stages of development
but not early embryonic patterning. Dev Biol 1999, 205(2):240-253.
12.
Hong Y, Lee RC, Ambros V: Structure and function analysis of LIN-14, a temporal regulator of postembryonic developmental
events in Caenorhabditis elegans. Mol Cell Biol 2000, 20(6):2285-2295.
13.
Ruvkun G, Giusto J: The Caenorhabditis elegans heterochronic gene lin-14 encodes a nuclear protein that
forms a temporal developmental switch. Nature 1989, 338(6213):313-319.
14.
Viswanathan SR, Daley GQ, Gregory RI: Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science 2008, 320(5872):97-100.
15.
Lehrbach NJ, Armisen J, Lightfoot HL, Murfitt KJ, Bugaut A, Balasubramanian S, Miska
EA: LIN-28 and the poly(U) polymerase PUP-2 regulate let-7 microRNA processing in Caenorhabditis
elegans. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2009, 16(10):1016-1020.
16.
Tsialikas J, Romer-Seibert J: LIN28: roles and regulation in development and beyond. Development 2015, 142(14):2397-2404.
17.
Harandi OF, Ambros VR: Control of stem cell self-renewal and differentiation by the heterochronic genes and
the cellular asymmetry machinery in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015, 112(3):E287-296.
18.
Ren H, Zhang H: Wnt signaling controls temporal identities of seam cells in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 2010, 345(2):144-155.
19.
Gleason JE, Eisenmann DM: Wnt signaling controls the stem cell-like asymmetric division of the epithelial seam
cells during C. elegans larval development. Dev Biol 2010, 348(1):58-66.
20.
Maduro MF, Lin R, Rothman JH: Dynamics of a developmental switch: recursive intracellular and intranuclear redistribution
of Caenorhabditis elegans POP-1 parallels Wnt-inhibited transcriptional repression. Dev Biol 2002, 248(1):128-142.
21.
Phillips BT, Kidd AR, 3rd, King R, Hardin J, Kimble J: Reciprocal asymmetry of SYS-1/beta-catenin and POP-1/TCF controls asymmetric divisions
in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007, 104(9):3231-3236.
22.
Shetty P, Lo MC, Robertson SM, Lin R: C. elegans TCF protein, POP-1, converts from repressor to activator as a result of
Wnt-induced lowering of nuclear levels. Dev Biol 2005, 285(2):584-592.
23.
Mizumoto K, Sawa H: Cortical beta-catenin and APC regulate asymmetric nuclear beta-catenin localization
during asymmetric cell division in C. elegans. Dev Cell 2007, 12(2):287-299.
24.
Seetharaman A, Cumbo P, Bojanala N, Gupta BP: Conserved mechanism of Wnt signaling function in the specification of vulval precursor
fates in C. elegans and C. briggsae. Dev Biol 2010, 346(1):128-139.
25.
Ranawade A, Mallick A, Gupta BP: PRY-1/Axin signaling regulates lipid metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One 2018, 13(11):e0206540.
26.
Koh K, Rothman JH: ELT-5 and ELT-6 are required continuously to regulate epidermal seam cell differentiation
and cell fusion in C. elegans. Development 2001, 128(15):2867-2880.
27.
Ren Z, Ambros VR: Caenorhabditis elegans microRNAs of the let-7 family act in innate immune response
circuits and confer robust developmental timing against pathogen stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015, 112(18):E2366-2375.
28.
Lee H, Han S, Kwon CS, Lee D: Biogenesis and regulation of the let-7 miRNAs and their functional implications. Protein Cell 2016, 7(2):100-113.
29.
Martinez NJ, Ow MC, Reece-Hoyes JS, Barrasa MI, Ambros VR, Walhout AJ: Genome-scale spatiotemporal analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans microRNA promoter activity. Genome Res 2008, 18(12):2005-2015.
30.
de Lencastre A, Pincus Z, Zhou K, Kato M, Lee SS, Slack FJ: MicroRNAs both promote and antagonize longevity in C. elegans. Curr Biol 2010, 20(24):2159-2168.
31.
Pincus Z, Smith-Vikos T, Slack FJ: MicroRNA predictors of longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet 2011, 7(9):e1002306.
32.
Banerjee D, Chen X, Lin SY, Slack FJ: kin-19/casein kinase Ialpha has dual functions in regulating asymmetric division and
terminal differentiation in C. elegans epidermal stem cells. Cell Cycle 2010, 9(23):4748-4765.
33.
Nakamura K, Kim S, Ishidate T, Bei Y, Pang K, Shirayama M, Trzepacz C, Brownell DR,
Mello CC: Wnt signaling drives WRM-1/beta-catenin asymmetries in early C. elegans embryos. Genes Dev 2005, 19(15):1749-1754.
34.
Baldwin AT, Phillips BT: The tumor suppressor APC differentially regulates multiple beta-catenins through the
function of axin and CKIalpha during C. elegans asymmetric stem cell divisions. J Cell Sci 2014, 127(Pt 12):2771-2781.
35.
Cadigan KM, Waterman ML: TCF/LEFs and Wnt signaling in the nucleus. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2012, 4(11).
36.
Bhambhani C, Ravindranath AJ, Mentink RA, Chang MV, Betist MC, Yang YX, Koushika SP,
Korswagen HC, Cadigan KM: Distinct DNA binding sites contribute to the TCF transcriptional switch in C. elegans
and Drosophila. PLoS Genet 2014, 10(2):e1004133.
37.
Arasu P, Wightman B, Ruvkun G: Temporal regulation of lin-14 by the antagonistic action of two other heterochronic
genes, lin-4 and lin-28. Genes Dev 1991, 5(10):1825-1833.
38.
Feinbaum R, Ambros V: The timing of lin-4 RNA accumulation controls the timing of postembryonic developmental
events in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 1999, 210(1):87-95.
39.
Abrahante JE, Daul AL, Li M, Volk ML, Tennessen JM, Miller EA, Rougvie AE: The Caenorhabditis elegans hunchback-like gene lin-57/hbl-1 controls developmental
time and is regulated by microRNAs. Dev Cell 2003, 4(5):625-637.
40.
Lin SY, Johnson SM, Abraham M, Vella MC, Pasquinelli A, Gamberi C, Gottlieb E, Slack
FJ: The C elegans hunchback homolog, hbl-1, controls temporal patterning and is a probable
microRNA target. Dev Cell 2003, 4(5):639-650.
41.
Li M, Jones-Rhoades MW, Lau NC, Bartel DP, Rougvie AE: Regulatory mutations of mir-48, a C. elegans let-7 family MicroRNA, cause developmental
timing defects. Dev Cell 2005, 9(3):415-422.
42.
Lim LP, Lau NC, Weinstein EG, Abdelhakim A, Yekta S, Rhoades MW, Burge CB, Bartel
DP: The microRNAs of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes Dev 2003, 17(8):991-1008.
43.
Brenner S: The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 1974, 77:71-94.
44.
Watts JL, Phillips E, Griffing KR, Browse J: Deficiencies in C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids cause behavioral and developmental
defects in Caenorhabditis elegans fat-3 mutants. Genetics 2003, 163(2):581-589.
45.
Sharanya D, Thillainathan B, Marri S, Bojanala N, Taylor J, Flibotte S, Moerman DG,
Waterston RH, Gupta BP: Genetic control of vulval development in Caenorhabditis briggsae. G3 (Bethesda) 2012, 2(12):1625-1641.
46.
Grad Y, Aach J, Hayes GD, Reinhart BJ, Church GM, Ruvkun G, Kim J: Computational and experimental identification of C. elegans microRNAs. Mol Cell 2003, 11(5):1253-1263.
47.
Hofacker IL: Vienna RNA secondary structure server. Nucleic Acids Res 2003, 31(13):3429-3431.