Fig. 2
From: Opposing directions of stage-specific body shape change in a close relative of C. elegans
Quantification of dauer and dauer-like size. a Scatterplots revealing the length and width of various developmental stages. Data for non-dauer stages are from [16]. Left panel, C. elegans; Right panel, C. inopinata. Non-dauer stages Nworms = 16–138; C. elegans dauers, Nworms = 214; C. inopinata dauers, Nworms = 174. *Dauer-like in the case of C. inopinata. b Bayesian phylogeny of nominal Caenorhabditis species of the Elegans group from [23]. Species in black are those used for this study. c-d Sina plots (strip charts with points taking the contours of a violin plot) illustrating the distributions of dauer (or dauer-like in the case of C. inopinata) length (c) and width (d), of four Caenorhabditis species. Each dot represents the observation of one worm. Red bars represent averages. C. elegans, Nworms = 214; C. inopinata, Nworms = 174; C. briggsae, Nworms = 85; C. tropicalis, Nworms = 93