Summary of life spans.

Life spans (LS±SEM, standard error of the mean, at 25°C, if not stated otherwise) under different experimental conditions in WT, two different alleles of vang-1 (tm1422 and ok1142), the intestine-specific RNAi strain OLB11 [60], [61], germline-specific RNAi strain NL2098 [62] and the neuron-enhanced and neuron-specific strains TU3311 and TU3401 [64]. OP50 [75] and RNAi HT115 [77], [78] indicate standard and RNAi E. coli strains, respectively. Comparison of significant results are indicated by *(p<0.01; Mantel-Cox log rank test) with corresponding experiments in parentheses (the p-value is stated, if not significant). All the life span assays were repeated at least three times. Data shown is a sum of all experiments.