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Superficially wild type with green fluorescence in L4 epidermis and adult stage cuticle. mNeonGreen and 3xFLAG tags inserted in N-terminus of endogenous BLI-1 locus at A106 (after subtilisin cleavage site) using Dickinson method. Reference: Adams JRG, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 18;14(1):7506. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43058-9. PMID: 37980413.

mNeonGreen tag inserted at C-terminus of endogenous bli-6 locus using Dickinson method. Superficially wild-type with green fluorescence in L4 epidermis and adult stage cuticle. Reference: Adams JRG, et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 18;14(1):7506. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43058-9. PMID: 37980413.

wyIs45 [ttx-3p::GFP::rab-3 + unc-122p::RFP] X. AIY presynaptic maintenance defect at adult stage (synapses appears in asynaptic Zone 3 region). Reference: Shao Z, et al. Cell. 2013 Jul 18;154(2):337-50.

WT strain, Pelodera strongyloides. Isolated in April 1948 from pustules in the skin of a cow with dermatitis in central Illinois (see Levine et al 1950). Gonochoristic. May cause dermatitis in mammals (such as domesticated animals, and, rarely, humans). Grows well at 16-24C on OP50. Dauer larvae are the infective stage and are thermotactic. Freezes easily with C. elegans protocols with 70% viability. Previously called Pelodera strongyloides dermatitica by the CGC.

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.

Recessive, early stop mutation within the coding sequence (C to T substitution in aa52) makes sa734 a likely null allele. May grow slightly better at 15C. Hyperactive, lays early stage eggs, increased amplitude of locomotory wave-form. Suppresses the lethargy and egg-laying defects of unc-43(n498). Reverses direction of locomotion more frequently than WT.

WT phenotype. Segregates WT, constitutive dauers and ts mild Uncs. Uncs are maternal-effect lethal: F1 Uncs from a heterozygote produce only arrested 2-fold stage progeny that hatch. Grow at 22.5C (n696 produces nearly 100% dauers at this temperature).

Forms dauer larvae non-conditionally but only arrests at dauer stage for 1-2 days, then grows to adult. daf-c but not ts - can grow at 15C or 20C.

Temperature sensitive. Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in mid-larval stages at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in L1 stage at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in L1 stage at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in L1 stage at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Temperature sensitive. Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny are maternal effect Emb at 20C and arrest in mid-larval stages at 25C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Heterozygotes segregate wild-type GFP+ heterozygotes, GFP+ Dpy, and sec-5 homozygotes (scrawny, small broods, abnormal gut appearance) sec-5 is homozygous maternal-effect lethal; M+Z- animals produce a few dead L1-L2 stage larvae with Vab defects. Pick GFP+ wild-type to maintain. Based upon phenotype, pk2357 is a strong loss-of-function, but likely not a null allele; molecular lesion produces a premature stop at position 389. Reference: Frische EW, et al. EMBO J. 2007 Dec 12;26(24):5083-92. [NOTE: This strain was previously described as carrying pk2358, but pk2357 is the correct allele. Both pk2357 and pk2358 cause the same nonsense (amber) change.]

eeEx100 [his-24::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Nuclear GFP fluorescence detected beginning with the eight-cell stage of the embryo in all somatic nuclei without the P-cell. In adults the GFP signal in somatic cells and in few hermaphrodites in undifferentiated germ nuclei and in oocytes and sperm. About 20% transmission.

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. At 25C the animals will arrest at 3-fold/L1 stage. Unc.

Male-female strain. Maintain by mating. Caenorhabditis sp. 6 wild isolate. Isolated by Michael Ailion and Ana-Joao Rodrigues from a rotting apple collected from the home of Anabela Fernandes in Amares, Portugal (address: Dr. Adolofo Vilela, no. 29, 4720-019 Amares, Portugal). Coordinates: 41 degrees, 37', 43.577 " N; 8 degrees, 20', 51.421 " W. Apple collected March 28, 2007. The apple produced a number of growing animals in different stages, including adults of both sexes. Male/Female Caenorhabditis species. 18S RNA sequence places it closest to PS1010 C. sp. 3.

Temperature sensitive. Missing Ray. Swollen tail and reduced fan. Temperature sensitive lethal at all stages. Wrinkled spicule.

Transformation of ray 6 to a thin ray which is anteriorly displaced and fuses with ray 4 (95%). A 10th ray is found in about 50% of the sides scored. Slightly shorter than WT. mab-21(bx53)/yDf10 is embryonically lethal with embryo arrest at 2 fold stage.

Extensive ray fusion. Posterior portion of body swollen at larval stages.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, Dpy and ddb-1 homozygotes, which arrest as L2-stage larvae (approx. 15%) or become sterile adults with protruding vulva (approx. 85%).

Homozygous mutant animals give rise to >97% dead embyros at the restrictive temperature of 26C, with embryos exhibiting a lack of pronuclear migration at the one-cell stage. Homozygous mutant animals give rise to 50% dead embryos at the permissive temperature of 15C. Maintain at 15C.

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. At 26C, animals give rise to 99% dead embryos, with embryos exhibiting lack of pronuclear migration at the one-cell stage. At 15C, animals give rise to 73% dead embryos.

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. At 26C, animals give rise to 100% dead embryos, with embryos exhibiting lack of pronuclear migration at the one-cell stage. At 15C, animals give rise to 42% dead embryos.

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. At 26C, animals give rise to 100% dead embryos, with embryos exhibiting lack of pronuclear migration at the one-cell stage. At 15C, animals give rise to viable progeny.

Recessive, temperature-sensitive embryonic lethal mutant . Maintain at 15C, most embryos will hatch. Nearly all embryos fail to hatch at 25C. Centrosomes are detached from nuclear spindle envelope in one-cell stage embryos; sometimes reattach to pronuclei; sometimes stay unattached throughout prophase until nuclear envelope breakdown. Mis-sense mutation in Q367P. Hook family member. Localizes to nuclear envelope and centrosomes; interacts with SUN domain proteins at nuclear envelope and interacts with dynein.

Conditional, semi-dominant, maternal-effect, embryonic-lethal mutation. Once-cell stage mitotic embryos have short astral microtubules and a mispositioned mitotic spindle. Maintain at 15C.

Maintain at 15C. Temperature-sensitive embryonic-lethal at restrictive temperature of 26C. Viable embryos at permissive temperature of 15C. Mitotic spindle in one-cell stage embryo assembles normally, but microtubules destabilize at anaphase and spindle becomes mis-positioned toward the posterior pole leading to highly abnormal cleavage and chromosome segregation defects. References: Gonczy P, et al. Dev Cell. 2001 Sep;1(3):363-75. Bellanger JM, et al. J Cell Sci. 2007 Aug 15;120(Pt 16):2963-73.

Homozygous mutant animals give rise to >99% dead embyros at the restrictive temperature of 26C, with embryos exhibiting a lack of pronuclear migration at the one-cell stage. Homozygous mutant animals give rise to viable progeny at the permissive temperature of 15C. Maintain at 15C.

de4 is a weaker allele of pvl-5. Weakly penetrant Egl and Pvl phenotype. Low penetrance embryonic lethal and gonad migration defects. pvl-5(de4) animals have fewer Pn.p cells in the ventral midline at mid-L2 larval stage.

Temperature-sensitve sterile. Maintain at 15-20C. Superficially wild-type at permissive temperatures; contains large bubble-like structures on the inside in all stages (described as large early endosomes), reduced brood size. Sterile and very sick at 25°C with some single escapers that are sterile and sick themselves. Suppressors have been observed after long culturing over several months, periodically check for sterility at 25C.

xnIs528 [hmp-1p::hmp-1::GFP + unc-119(+)]. HMP-1::GFP localized to cell contacts in early embryo and junctions in later stages. Reference: Klompstra D, et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2015 Jun;17(6):726-35.

xnIs96 [pJN455(hmr-1p::hmr-1::GFP::unc-54 3'UTR) + unc-119(+)]. GFP starts in membranes at~100 cell stage, becomes bright apically in older embryos and larvae; most prominent in nerve ring in adults. Reference: Achilleos et al. (2010) Development 137(11):1833-42.

Heterozygotes segregate wild-type heterozygotes, Dpy, and sec-5 homozygotes (scrawny, small broods, abnormal gut appearance) sec-5 is homozygous maternal-effect lethal; M+Z- animals produce a few dead L1-L2 stage larvae with Vab defects. Based upon phenotype, pk2357 is a strong loss-of-function, but likely not a null allele; molecular lesion produces a premature stop at position 389. Reference: Frische EW, et al. EMBO J. 2007 Dec 12;26(24):5083-92. [NOTE: This strain was previously described as carrying pk2358, but pk2357 is the correct allele. Both pk2357 and pk2358 cause the same nonsense (amber) change.]

Unc. Slightly Dpy. Tail whip knobbed at all stages except adult male (adult male tail tip slightly swollen). Variably Egl.

Dpy. Unc. Tail whip knobbed at all stages except adult male (adult male tail tip slightly swollen).

Unc. Roller. Tail whip knobbed at all stages except adult male (adult male tail tip slightly swollen).

Temperature sensitive, maintain at 15C. At 25C, arrests at 1 to 24 cell stage. Will grow at 20C.

Slow pumping. Egg laying defective. Low frequency of dauer formation. Residual serotonin immunoreactivity, rare and very faint (<1% of NSMs) in most stages, but nearly 100% of CP neurons in adult males show faint to moderate serotonin immunoreactivity. Males mate quite well (E. Hare and C. Loer). Some phenotypic defects originally attributed to mg280 in this strain are likely due to vs166. vs166 is a large deletion (approx. 9.8kb) in the cam-1 gene; flanking sequences are: 5'-gctactggtaaataaggtaa-3' and 5'-atgcttttaaagtttatatt-3' (Edith Myers, personal commnication). See MT15434 for a strain carrying mg280 without the cam-1 mutation.

veIs13 [col-19::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] V. mgEx725 [lin-4::let-7 + ttx-3::RFP]. Pick RFP+ to maintain. mgEx725 rescues lethality of let-7(mn112). Precocious expression of col-19::GFP at the L4 stage. Reference: Hayes GD, Riedel CG, Ruvkun G. 2011. Genes Dev. 2011 Oct 1;25(19):2079-92.

Temperature sensitive maternal effect lethal if shifted from 15C to 25C at the L4 and later stages; sterile if it gets past embryogenesis before being shifted. Maintain at 15C. MJ61 contains a lin-12 allele (ar170) which results in 2 anchor cells. GS1369 was derived by outcrossing MJ61 to remove ar170. Do not distribute this strain; other labs should request it from the CGC. Added 10/2005: Zhuoyu Ni in Sylvia Lee's lab did not find the published missense mutation in this strain. It does have the ts sterile/lethal phenotype still.

Animals with the duplication are WT and segregate WT and larval lethals. Larval muscle detachment and arrest at about L1 stage in mua-3(ar62) homozygotes. Do not distribute this strain; other labs should request it from the CGC.

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. bqSi225 [emr-1p::emr-1::mCherry + unc-119(+)] IV. gwIs59 [pha-4::mCherry::256xLacO::4xLexA + unc-119(+)]. Superficially wild-type. Express ubiquitous EMR-1::mCherry at the nuclear periphery. Expresses GFP-LacI from early embryogenesis and throughout development, which forms a small spot at the lacO array. Worms have red intestine (all stages) and green intestine (from late L4 stage). Reference: Harr JC, et al. Genes Dev. 2020 Apr 1;34(7-8):560-579. PMID: 32139421.

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. gwIs34 [myo-3::mCherry + 256xlacO + unc-119(+)] III. Superficially wild-type. Expresses GFP-LacI throughout development from early embryogenesis, forming a small spot at the lacO array. Worms have red muscle (from L1 stage) and green intestine (from late L4 stage). Reference: Meister P, et al. Genes Dev. 2010 Apr 15;24(8):766-82. PMID: 20395364

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. gwIs58 [hsp-16.2p::mCherry::256xLacO::4xLexA + unc-119(+)]. Small transgene/large array. Superficially wild-type. Expresses GFP-LacI from early embryogenesis and throughout development, which forms a small spot at the lacO array. Worms have green intestine (from late L4 stage). Might still carry unc-119(ed3) in background. Reference: Rohner S, et al. J Cell Biol. 2013 Mar 4;200(5):589-604. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201207024. PMID: 23460676

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. ygIs2 [baf-1::GFP::lmn-1(Y59C) + unc-119(+)]. caIs3 [pha-4::lacZ + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Strain expressing low level of GFP::LMN-1 (carrying the Y59C mutation). Expresses GFP-LacI from early embryogenesis and throughout development, which forms a small spot at the lacO array. Worms have red muscle (from L1 stage) and green intestine (from late L4 stage). Reference: Mattout A, et al. Curr Biol. 2011 Oct 11;21(19):1603-14. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.030. PMID: 21962710

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. gwIs4 [baf-1p::GFP-lacI::let-858 3’UTR + myo-3p::RFP] X. Superficially wild-type. Expresses GFP-LacI throughout development from early embryogenesis, forming a large spot at the lacO array. Worms have red muscle (from L1 stage) and green intestine (from late L4 stage). Reference: Towbin BD, et al. Cell. 2012 Aug 31;150(5):934-47. PMID: 22939621

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. gwIs58 [hsp-16.2p::mCherry::256xLacO::4xLexA + unc-119(+)]. Small transgene/large array. Slow growing and dumpy. Expresses GFP-LacI from early embryogenesis and throughout development, which forms a small spot at the lacO array. Worms have green intestine (from late L4 stage). Might still carry unc-119(ed3) in background. Reference: Rohner S, et al. J Cell Biol. 2013 Mar 4;200(5):589-604. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201207024. PMID: 23460676

gwIs39 [baf-1::gfp-lacI::let-858 3'UTR + vit-5::GFP] III. gwIs4 [baf-1p::GFP-lacI::let-858 3’UTR + myo-3p::RFP] X. Superficially wild-type. Expresses GFP-LacI throughout development from early embryogenesis, forming a large spot at the lacO array. Worms have red muscle (from L1 stage) and green intestine (from late L4 stage). Reference: Gonzalez-Sandoval A, et al. Cell. 2015 Dec 3;163(6):1333-47. PMID: 26607792