The two ain-1 loss-of-function alleles displayed significant reductions in L1 starvation survival rate. We further found that this survival rate reduction of ain-1 mutants was overcome by ectopic expression of the AIN-2 protein in the intestine but not in the muscle (Fig. 1A and Fig. S1A). We found that ain-1 but not ain-2 mutants displayed a significant reduction in L1 starvation survival rate compared with that of wild type (Fig. 1 A and D). Furthermore, a recent study suggests that the expression of revery play login certain miRNAs is differentially regulated by starvation-induced dauer diapause (15). Consistent with these ideas, several recent lines of evidence suggest that miRNA let-7 and the heterochronic genes lin-42 and hbl-1 are required to regulate the starvation-induced dauer diapause (10–12) and that a number of miRNAs including lin-4 and mir-71 are involved in regulating life span (13, 14).
The primers that were used to amplify the 3′UTR of candidate genes are available upon request. 3′UTRs of genes of interest were cloned into the modified pPD129.57 vector as described previously (18). The data for 3′UTR expression and for VPC timing were analyzed using χ2 test.

• The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds to starvation by entering developmental arrest at multiple stages of its life cycle (1).
• To test whether the activity of the InsR pathway was down-regulated by miR-71, we first examined the endogenous expression of components of the InsR pathway in mir-71(lf).
• (B) The severely reduced survival rate of the mir-71(lf) mutant was suppressed by a null allele of unc-31(e928).
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We then compared the expression of a hbl-1 3′UTR reporter (18) in the mir-71(lf) mutants with that in wild type and found that the expression of this reporter was slightly derepressed at L3 in the mir-71 mutant (Fig. 4 F and G). (D) Bar graph showing that the delayed VPC timing defect of mir-71(lf) worms was enhanced by daf-16(lf) after 1 or 3 d of L1 starvation. (B) Bar graph showing the correlation between the severity of the retarded vulval precursor cell (VPC) timing defect of mir-71(lf) mutants and the duration of L1 starvation.
{The numbers on each image indicate how many worms of the examined ones displayed the indicated phenotype. (Right panels) The gonad of the same animals in the Left panels to indicate the similar developmental stage. (A) Differential interference contrast (DIC) images showing L4 worms recovered from 4-d–starved L1 worms.}