"For this, we assayed dauer formation of TGF-b pathway mutants on
daf-18 and
daf-16 RNAi (Table 3 and Figure S10). Interestingly, dauer formation of
daf-7(
e1372),
daf-14(
m77) and
daf-8(
m85) worms was robustly suppressed by
daf-16 RNAi. We observed similar results for dauer formation
daf-7(
e1372) and
daf-14(
m77) mutants on
daf-18 RNAi. However, in the case of
daf-8(
m85) mutants,
daf-18 RNAi had no effect on dauer formation of (Figure S10), suggesting a complex crosstalk between both pathways."