part_of part of larva Ce C. elegans life stage occurring during larval stage post dauer stage Ce post dauer L4 stage Ce worm_development WBls:0000828 A C. elegans L4 larval life stage that occurs after the animal has recovered from the dauer diapause. "Larvae molt from PDL3 to the PDL4 stage approximately 16 hours after stimulation to recover from dauer at 20 degrees Celsius, or 12 hours after stimulation to recover at 25 degrees Celsius (Figure 3) (Cassada and Russell, 1975; Reape and Burnell,1990). PDL4 larvae are morphologically indistinguishable from L4 larvae, at least at the gross level. Similarly, PDadults appear identical to adults that developed continuously. However, subtle differences do exist. For example,some changes in muscle arm and neuronal cell structure persist in post-dauer stages (Dixon et al., 2008; Schroeder et al., 2013). Interestingly, this apparent similarity between post-dauer and continuously developed animals belies a number of changes at the level of expression of protein coding and small RNA coding genes, as well as changes in chromatin structure (Hall et al., 2010; Karp et al., 2011; Hall et al., 2013)." PDL4