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Meanwhile, c30f12.4 mutant worms display a shortened lifespan.

A new study shows that lamin mutant worms display muscle-specific defects linked to altered subnuclear localization of heterochromatin, leading to altered gene expression.

These two regulators are specific to germline signaling in their longevity-promoting effects because daf-9 mutant worms display an extended lifespan, and loss-of-function mutations in daf-12 increase lifespan in males (Gems et al., 1998; Jia et al., 2002; McCormick et al., 2012).

We found that c30f12.4 mutant worms displayed significantly reduced animal survival (Fig. 6A).

D tyra-2 mutant worms show a chemotaxis index comparable to that of wild-type worms.

The eat-2 mutant worms also show similar switch in metabolism (Yuan et al., 2012).

Kenyon showed me one of her mutant worms moving across a microscope slide as gracefully and vigorously at eight weeks as a normal worm moves at two weeks.

On the glowing Perspex model, it looks like an army of mutant worms wriggling towards the power station, set to throttle it once and for all.

Such mutant worms can be bought off the shelf, whereas the ones with just an extra sir2 gene are a special order.

Another Californian, a biologist, Cynthia Kenyon, made mutant worms live twice as long as normal -- four weeks instead of two -- by fiddling with genes and hormones.

The researchers also experimented with mutant worms that had low TGF-beta activity levels.