Fig. 4

Food quantity and quality have stage-specific effects on postembryonic development. A Total duration of development at different concentrations of E. coli OP50-1, from 10 to 0.08 g/l. B Duration of each stage of development relative to that at the highest concentration of food. C Duration of development of the wild-type strain and the eat-2(ad1113) mutant. D Duration of each stage of development of the eat-2 mutant relative to that of the wild-type. E Duration of development of the wild-type strain on HB101 and DA1877 diets. F Duration of each stage of development on HB101 and DA1877 diets relative to the duration on OP50-1. In A, C and E, grey or coloured markers show the values of individual animals and black dots represent the average of each experiment. The dots in B, D and F, represent relative durations calculated from the average of each experiment