Germline shrinkage during ARD maintenance and regrowth during recovery.

Representative images (with magnified panels for detail] showing the germline (outlined in yellow] of worms starved (left panel] at day 30 of ARD, with uterine embryos noted with white arrows. The right panel shows worms that have been re-feed for 48 hours after 30 days of ARD, with white dashed lines to indicate the germline, where healthy embryos and/or oocytes can be seen. All strains showed robust shrinkage of the germline during starvation and regrowth after feeding. The 50 μm scale bar shown in the top row applies to all images in each column.