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Superficially wild-type. knu864 is a S1444R point mutation associated with Cori Disease. This strain may not be distributed to commercial or for-profit entities. Please contact ethan@perlara.com for more information.

Superficially wild-type. knu867 is a 6955 bp deletion in agl-1. This strain may not be distributed to commercial or for-profit entities. Please contact ethan@perlara.com for more information.services/. For more information, please contact ethan@perlara.com

knu869 is a 4077 bp deletion in sul-1. This strain may not be distributed to commercial or for-profit entities. Please contact ethan@perlara.com for more information.services/. For more information, please contact ethan@perlara.com

Cholesterol-sensitive. Smaller broods and sizes upon serial cholesterol deprivation. This strain may not be distributed to commercial or for-profit entities. Please contact ethan@perlara.com for more information.

kyIs140 [str-2::GFP + lin-15(+)] I. 2-AWC OFF.

Severe missense mutation. Bus (resistant to M. nematophilum), Bah (resistant to Yersinia biofilm formation), resistant to Leucobacter Verde2, hypersensitive to Leucobacter Verde1, drug and bleach sensitive. Slightly skiddy movement. Useful for drug screening. Reference: Xiong H, et al. Sci Rep. 2017 Aug 29;7(1):9839.

Formerly known as Rhabditis axei. Isolated by Elie S. Dolgin in 2006 from agricultural soil at Naivasha, Kenya (0º50'S 36º22'E); isolate number NV-SH-2. First frozen by Fitch laboratory 9/5/2006. Gonochoristic. Grows well on NGM plates and OP50 at 20-25C. Freezes easily with C. elegans protocols with 70% viability. DF5097 was verified to be R. axei by intercrossing it with DF5006 and observing that their resulting F1 and F2 hybrid offspring were healthy and fertile. At 33C, DF5097 can live up to three days, although they developmentally arrest as late larvae or young adults, fail to produce offspring, and eventually die; in contrast, DF5006 either dies or arrests as first-stage (L1) larvae. Returning DF5097 to 20C from 33C rescues them from developmental arrest and death, and allows them to become fertile adults; in contrast, when DF5006 L1 larvae are returned to 20C, they sometimes grow to later stage larvae, but never grow to fertile adults. Thus, DF5097 shows clearly superior resistance to heat over DF5006; it shows somewhat greater fertility than DF5098 (which also withstands 33C) after being returned to 20C.

Formerly known as Rhabditis axei. Isolated by Elie S. Dolgin in 2006 from fungus at Limuru, Kenya (1º05'S 36º39'E); isolate number LI-OM-B-1&4. First frozen by Fitch laboratory 9/5/2006. Gonochoristic. Grows well on NGM plates and OP50 at 20-25C. Freezes easily with C. elegans protocols with >20% viability. DF5098 was verified to be R. axei by intercrossing it with DF5006 and observing that their resulting F1 and F2 hybrid offspring were healthy and fertile. At 33C, DF5098 can live for up to three days, although they developmentally arrest as late larvae or young adults, fail to produce offspring, and eventually die; in contrast, DF5006 either dies or arrests as first-stage (L1) larvae. Returning DF5098 to 20C from 33C rescues them from developmental arrest and death, and allows them to become fertile adults; in contrast, when DF5006 L1 larvae are returned to 20C, they sometimes grow to later larvae, but never grow to fertile adults. Thus, DF5098 shows clearly superior resistance to heat over DF5006; it shows somewhat lower fertility than DF5097 (which also withstands 33C) after being returned to 20C.

raIs5 [myo-3p::GFP::myo-3 + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. raIs5 produces a fully functional GFP-tagged myo-3 protein that localizes to myofilaments in muscle cells. Derived by integrating stEx30 in DM5133. Reference: Meissner B, et al. PLoS Genet. 2009 Jun;5(6):e1000537.

Isolated in Arizona desert. Identification by E. Mae Noffsinger.

Isolated in Arizona desert. Identification by E. Mae Noffsinger as Acrobeloides obliquus.

Original sample from peach orchard at Lodi CA. Original culture sent to DWF from B. Jaffee. Identification by E. Mae Noffsinger.

Mentioned in Soil Biol. Biochem 25(9): 1141-1151, 1993. Sent to DWF from E.M. Noffsinger. Isolated in CA.

Originally from UCR collection. Identification by E. Mae Noffsinger.

oxTi1126 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272] III. Knock-in into previously modified unc-119(ox819) endogenous locus. Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. The Cas9 transgene was optimized for germline expression by including 4 large PATC-rich introns from smu-2. Lower activity than other Cas9 strains, but useful because Cas9, Cre, and unc-119 are in a single unit. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

oxTi1127 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272] III. Inserted into F53A2.9. High Cas9 activity. Integrated Cas9 transgene linked to unc-119(ox819). Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

oxTi1127 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272] III. Inserted into F53A2.9. High Cas9 activity. Superficially wild-type. Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

oxTi1128 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272]) I. Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. Inserted into W01A8.6. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

oxTi1128 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272]) I. Outcrossed to remove unc-119 mutation. Superficially wild-type. Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. Inserted into W01A8.6. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

Male-female strain. Reference WBG 11(4):89. See also WBPaper00001874. May crawl off the plates. Previously called C. vulgaris BK and C. vulgariensis BK. Walter Sudhaus has tentatively described this strain as C. remanei ssp. vulgaris; this description is not official and is contigent upon its being published. See WBPaper00002633 and WBPaper00003993.

fphIs1 [aak-2Ap::aak-2A::GFP + unc-119(+)]. aak-2A isoform expressed with its own promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

fphEx1 [aak-2Cp::aak-2C::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Pick wild-type (non-Unc) to maintain. aak-2C isoform expressed from its own promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

fphEx2 [aak-2A/Cp::aak-2A/C::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Pick wild-type (non-Unc) to maintain. aak-2A and aak-2C isoforms expressed from their own promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

fphEx3 [aak-2Ap::aak-2C::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Pick wild-type (non-Unc) to maintain. aak-2c isoform expressed from the aak-2a promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

fphIs2 [unc-119p::aak-2A::GFP + unc-119(+)]. aak-2A isoform expressed from the neuronal unc-119 promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

fphIs3 [rab-3p::aak-2A::GFP + unc-119(+)]. aak-2A isoform expressed from the neuronal rab-3 promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

fphEx4 [vha-6p::aak-2A::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Pick wild-type (non-Unc) to maintain. aak-2A isoform expressed from the intestinal vha-6 promoter in aak-2(ok524) background. Reference: Jeong JH, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 18;14(1):288. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35952-z. PMID: 36653384.

Appears WT. orIs1 [pie-1p::GFP::mei-1 + unc-119(+)]. Maintain at 20C or above. Below 20C the GFP signal turns off.

orIs14 [pie-1p::GFP::efa-6c::pie-1 3'UTR + unc-119(+)]. pie-1 promoter-driven N-terminal GFP fusion to EFA-6 isoform C. Reference: O'Rourke SM, et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2010 Dec;12(12):1235-41.

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. pha-1(e2123) is embryonic lethal at 25C. Hermaphrodites have an abnormal tail: sometimes twisted, tail whip never formed, often bobbed; sometimes uncoordinated with bent tail. Adult male tail deformed also.

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. Will grow at 20C, but not at 25C. [11/93: Not behaving as described. Very sick at 25C, but giving some live offspring which in turn give a few more live offspring.]

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. Embryonic lethal.(Some growth at 20C.) [11/93: Not behaving as described. Very sick at 25C, but giving some live offspring which in turn give a few more live offspring.]

mgEx663 [dpy-7p::daf-9B(cDNA)::GFP + mec-7::GFP]. Pick GFP+ to maintain. GFP fusion containing 0.4 kb dpy-7 promoter and daf-9 isoform B cDNA. Reference: Mak HY, Ruvkun G. Development. 2004 Apr;131(8):1777-86.

Can be maintained on OP50. Requires dietary Moco for viability. Reference: Warnhoff K & Ruvkun G. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Mar 25. doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0249-y.

F49E2.1. Can be maintained on OP50. Requires dietary Moco for viability. Reference: (F49E2.1 referred to as moc-5) Warnhoff K & Ruvkun G. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Mar 25. doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0249-y.

Can be maintained on OP50. Suppresses Moco-deficient larval lethality. Reference: Warnhoff K & Ruvkun G. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Mar 25. doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0249-y.

Can be maintained on OP50. Suppresses Moco-deficient larval lethality. Reference: Warnhoff K & Ruvkun G. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Mar 25. doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0249-y.

Larval lethal mutation balanced by tmC24 [F23D12.4(tmIs1240) unc-9(tm9719)]. Balancer marked with myo-2p::Venus. Maintain by picking non-Unc GFP+ animals. Heterozygotes are wild-type GFP+ and segregate wild-type GFP+ heterozygotes, non-GFP mg663 homozygotes (lethal), and Unc GFP+ (homozygous tmC24). Reference: Warnhoff K & Ruvkun G. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Mar 25. doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0249-y.

Caenorhabditis sp. 77 wild isolate. Male-female. Maintain at 20C or warmer. Elegans group. Isofemale line isolated from rotting banana flowers collected in a forest near Batu, East Java, Indonesia, on 28 Apr 2024. GPS -7.803387, 112.516604. Reference: Devi, et al. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Aug 6;15(8):jkaf134. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaf134. PMID: 40542721.

Caenorhabditis sp. 79 wild isolate. Male-female. Maintain at 20C or warmer. Elegans group. Isofemale line isolated from leaf litter collected in a forest near Jeneberang River Lake, Parangloe, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on 6 May 2024. GPS -5.238297, 119.642281. Reference: Devi, et al. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Aug 6;15(8):jkaf134. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaf134. PMID: 40542721.

Caenorhabditis sp. 81 wild isolate. Male-female. Maintain at 20C or warmer. Elegans group. Isofemale line isolated from rotting Brugmansia flowers collected in a forest near Batu, East Java, Indonesia, on 28 Apr 2024. GPS -7.805005, 112.516905. Reference: Devi, et al. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Aug 6;15(8):jkaf134. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaf134. PMID: 40542721.

Caenorhabditis sp. 80 wild isolate. Male-female. Maintain at 20C or warmer. Elegans group. Isofemale line isolated from rotting wild Musa pseudostems collected in the forest on the road between Bromo and Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on 11 May 2024. GPS -7.99746, 112.87387. Reference: Devi, et al. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Aug 6;15(8):jkaf134. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaf134. PMID: 40542721.

Dominant temperature sensitive maternal-effect embryonic lethal. Maintain at 15C. Heterozygotes are WT. hIn1 homozygotes are Unc. Early cleavage spindles small and misoriented, cytokinesis often incomplete. Recessive non-temperature sensitive maternal-effect embryonic lethal (but sterile in conjuction with unc-59).

Dominant ts maternal-effect embryonic lethal. Embryos show extensive cytoplasmic blebbing, often accompanied by small spindles and incomplete cytokinesis. Two cell embryos divide synchronously. Embryos arrest with eight to several hundred cells. Recessive non-ts maternal-effect embryonic lethal. Null may be WT. Maintain at 15C.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, Unc Dauers, and Dpys which throw dead eggs. Maintain by picking WT. ct59 animals are viable and fertile at 15C. ct59 is a temperature sensitive dominant maternal effect lethal. ct59 hets give more viable offspring at 15C than 25C.

quEx182 [npr-9(+) + sur-5::GFP + odr-1::RFP]. Maintain by picking GFP+. Rescuing npr genomic fragment co-injected with sur-5::GFP and odr-1::RFP]. transgenic (GFP+) animals tend to wander off the food.

njIs9 [glr-3p::snb-1::venus + ofm-1::GFP] IV.

kyIs140 [str-2::GFP + lin-15(+)] I. vyEx1462 (die-1(fosmid)::Venus + odr-1::DsRed + ofm-1::DsRed). Pick animals with DsRed+ coelomocytes to maintain. Animals with vyEx1462 show 2AWC(OFF) phenotype. Extrachromosomal array rescues die-1(w34).

kyIs140 [str-2::GFP + lin-15(+)] I. vyEx1510 (ceh-36p::die-1(cDNA) + odr-1::DsRed + ofm-1::DsRed). Pick animals with DsRed+ coelomocytes to maintain. Animals with vyEx1510 show 2AWC(OFF) phenotype.

Lacks autofluorescent and birefringent gut granules.