Effects on the developpement of worms
The first young adult observed in control samples was between 20 and 22 hours from the L3 larva stage (Figure 4). Injection of MAPbI3 delayed the developmental process by 3 hours at the lowest concentration and by 5.5 hours at the highest one. Treatment with MASnI3 induced a worse delay in development already at 50 ug/ml, where the majority of larvae became adults after 30 hours. For higher concentrations, most of the nematodes either perished or remained small, which explains the absence of young adult “phenotype”.