Strain Information

Name EU1296   View On Wormbase
Species C. elegans
Genotypehim-8(e1489) IV; act-2(or621) V.
DescriptionStrongly semi-dominant, temperature sensitive, embryonic lethal mutant. 40% of embyros produced by homozygous mothers at 15C will hatch; 0% produced at 26C will hatch. Mutation is semi-dominant at 26C: 85% of embyros produced by heterozygous mothers hatched at 26C. Mutant embryos exhibit excess coritical actomyosin contractility (extra furrows and protrusions) in early embryonic cells; during interphase and most of mitosis. Throws males. or621 is a tcc to gcc substitution (S15A).
MutagenENU
Outcrossedx4
Made byJohn Willis
Laboratory EU
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