Strain Information

Name WRM45   View On Wormbase
Species C. elegans
Genotypemex-3(spr5[*tn1753]) I.
DescriptionHomozygous fertile; reduced brood size. mex-3(spr5) is a CRISPR/Cas9 engineered deletion removing 488 bp of the mex-3 3´UTR. Derived by modification of parental strain DG4269 mex-3(tn1753[gfp::3xflag::mex-3]) I. Reference: Albarqi MMY & Ryder SP. PLoS Genet 2021 Aug 23;17(8):e1009775. PMID: 34424904
MutagenCRISPR-Cas9
Outcrossedx3
Made byMennatallah Albarqi
Laboratory WRM
Reference Albarqi MMY, Ryder SP (2021) The endogenous mex-3 3´UTR is required for germline repression and contributes to optimal fecundity in C. elegans. PLoS Genet 17(8): e1009775. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009775
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