Wnt Signaling Drives Ectopic Gene Expression and Larval Arrest in the Absence of the DREAM Repressor Complex.

Establishment and maintenance of proper gene expression is a requirement for normal growth and development. The DREAM complex in functions as a transcriptional repressor of germline genes in somatic cells. At 26°, DREAM complex mutants show increased misexpression of germline genes in somatic cells and High Temperature Arrest (HTA) of worms at the first larval stage.