Search Strains

adIs2122 [lgg-1::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Maintain at 15C. ~30% animals form dauers at 20C. Not all animals will roll, but all should be GFP+. Reference: Egan DF, et al. Science. 2011 Jan 28;331(6016):456-61.

stEx30 [myo-3p::GFP::myo-3 + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Pick GFP+ Rollers to maintain. Reference: Kumsta C, Hansen M. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35428.

adIs2122 [lgg-1p::GFP::lgg-1 + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Reference: Lapierre LR, Curr Biol. 2011 Sep 27;21(18):1507-14.

adIs2122 [lgg-1p::GFP::lgg-1 + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Reference: Kumsta C, Hansen M. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35428.

pk1417 outcrossed 4 times to N2. Reference: Kumsta C, Hansen M. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35428.

sqIs24 [rgef-1p::GFP::lgg-1 + unc-122p::RFP]. Derived by injection and subsequent integration of plasmids pMH882 and pMH876. Reference: Gelino S, et al. PLoS Genet. 2016 Jul 14;12(7):e1006135. Erratum in: PLoS Genet. 2016 Aug;12(8):e1006271.

sqIs25 [atg-18p::atg-18::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. GFP+ Rollers. Derived by integration of sqEx4 in MAH145. Reference: McQuary et. al., Cell Report. 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.012.

adIs2122 [lgg-1::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Reference: Egan DF, et al. Science. 2011 Jan 28;331(6016):456-61.

sqIs32 [sur-5p::argk-1::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. GFP+ Rollers. Derived by integration of sqEx27 in MAH264. Reference: McQuary et. al., Cell Report. 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.012.

adIs2122 [lgg-1p::GFP::lgg-1 + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Maintain at 15C or 20C. Sterile at 25C. Reference: Lapierre LR, Curr Biol. 2011 Sep 27;21(18):1507-14.

sqEx67 [rgef-1p::mCherry::GFP::lgg-1 + rol-6]. Rollers. Pick Rollers to maintain.

sqIs71 [rgef-1p::GFP + rgef-1p::sid-1]. Pan-neuronal expression of sid-1 driven by the rgef-1 promoter. Expression remains neuron-specific until at least Day 10. Animals respond to feeding RNAi against gfp and neuronal genes snb-1 and unc-13. In contrast, animals are resistant to phenotypes induced by feeding RNAi constructs targeting non-neuronal genes pept-1, unc-112, bli-1 and die-1. Reference: Yang Y, et al. Nat Aging 2024 Jan 4. doi: 10.1038/s43587-023-00548-1. PMID: 38177330. MAH677 effectively replaces strain TU3401 sid-1(pk3321) uIs69 [pCFJ90 (myo-2p::mCherry) + unc-119p::sid-1] V., which was found to show RNAi response in non-neuronal tissues.

sqIs56 [rgef-1p::sqst-1::GFP + unc-122p::RFP]. Neuronal over-expression of GFP-tagged p62/SQST-1, a key autophagy substrate. Reference: Kumsta C, et al. Nat Commun. 2019 Dec 11;10(1):5648.

ruIs32 [pie-1p::GFP::H2B + unc-119(+)] III. Reference: Kumsta C, Hansen M. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35428.

Full CRISPR deletion of sqst-1 locus. Reference: Kumsta C, et al. Nat Commun. 2019 Dec 11;10(1):5648.

muIs109 [daf-16p::GFP::DAF-16 cDNA + odr-1p::RFP]. Reference: Kumsta C, Hansen M. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35428.

muIs84 [sod-3p::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Weak rollers. Reference: Kumsta C, Hansen M. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e35428.

abcIs3 [pie-1p::ebp-2::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Superficially wild-type. Maternal expression of EBP-2::GFP microtubule end-binding protein. In early embryos, EBP-2 encodes an EB1-like protein (end-binding) that locates to the growing tips of microtubules (not detected on depolymerizing microtubules). A strong fluorescent signal localizes to the centrosome due to high concentration of polymerizing microtubule ends. References: Gusnowski EM, Srayko M. J Cell Biol. 2011 Aug 8;194(3):377-86. Tegha-Dunghu J, et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1136:103-16.

abcIs3 [pie-1p::ebp-2::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Embryonic-lethal at 25ºC due to dominant gain-of-function mutation mei-1(ct46), and Uncoordinated due to unc-13 mutation. Maternal expression of EBP-2::GFP microtubule end-binding protein. EBP-2 encodes an EB1-like protein (end-binding) that, in early embryos, locates to the growing tips of microtubules. A strong fluorescent signal localizes to the centrosomes of early embryos due to a high concentration of polymerizing microtubules. mei-1(ct46)-based ectopic microtubule severing causes mitotic spindle defects in the early embryo. References: Gusnowski EM, Srayko M. J Cell Biol. 2011 Aug 8;194(3):377-86. Tegha-Dunghu J, et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1136:103-16.

Suppresses hypoxia resistance of ddx-52(gc51). gc54 and gc55 are both missense alleles of ulp-4, but may behave somewhat differently. Reference: Itani OA, et al. Current Biology. 2021/01/11/ 2021;31(1):128-137.e5. PMID: 33157031.

Suppresses hypoxia resistance of ddx-52(gc51). gc54 and gc55 are both missense alleles of ulp-4, but may behave somewhat differently. Reference: Itani OA, et al. Current Biology. 2021/01/11/ 2021;31(1):128-137.e5. PMID: 33157031.

Gain-of-function mutation. Suppresses hypoxia resistance of ddx-52(gc51). Reference: Itani OA, et al. Current Biology. 2021/01/11/ 2021;31(1):128-137.e5. PMID: 33157031.

Gain-of-function mutation. Suppresses hypoxia resistance of ddx-52(gc51). gc63 gc64 occurred in the same mutagenesis; unclear which allele (or if both) is causing the gain of function. Reference: Itani OA, et al. Current Biology. 2021/01/11/ 2021;31(1):128-137.e5. PMID: 33157031.

Superficially wild-type. Seed mutation of mir-35 was made by two rounds of CRISPR/Cas9 editing. cdb2 is a 50 bp deletion of the mir-35 locus. cdb4 was created by successive homology-directed repair of the disrupted mir-35 locus with a protospacer to preserve the secondary structure of the primary and precursor hairpin. Reference: Yang B, et al. Genes Dev. 2020 Sep 1;34(17-18):1227-1238. PMID: 32820039

The seed region of the mature mir-35 is replaced with random nucleotides in mir-35(cdb2 cdb6). This mutant mir-35 has little impact on embryonic mir-35 abundance but strongly inhibits its decay at embryo to L1. Superficially wild-type. Reference: Donnelly BF, et al. (2022). Cell Reports.

cdb2 cdb72 is a mutation to the 3' end of the mature mir-35 creating a 3’ end containing nucleotides that are not present or rare among all mir-35 family members at a given position, while preserving overall GC content. This mir-35 mutant strongly impacts embryonic abundance of mir-35 but does not affect its decay at embryo to L1. Superficially wild-type. Reference: Donnelly BF, et al. (2022). Cell Reports.

cdb2 cdb78 is a mutation to the 3' end of the mature mir-35 creating a mutant with mir-35 seed sequence and mir-82 3’ end. This mir-35 mutant strongly impacts embryonic abundance of mir-35 but does not affect its decay at embryo to L1. Superficially wild-type. Reference: Donnelly BF, et al. (2022). Cell Reports.

Superficially wild type. Seed mutation of mir-35 was made by two rounds of CRISPR/Cas9 editing. cdb2 is a 50 bp deletion of the mir-35 locus. cdb4 was created by successive homology-directed repair of the disrupted mir-35 locus with a protospacer to preserve the secondary structure of the primary and precursor hairpin. egl-1(cdb97) contains engineered mutations in mir-35 binding site in the 3’UTR region making the sequence complementary to the mir-35(cdb4) variant. Reference: Yang B, et al. Genes Dev. 2020 Sep 1;34(17-18):1227-1238. PMID: 32820039

nhl-2(cdb100) contains engineered mutations in the mir-35 binding site in the nhl-2 3’UTR region making the sequence complementary to the mir-35(cdb4) variant. egl-1(cdb97) contains engineered mutations in mir-35 binding site in the egl-1 3’UTR region making the sequence complementary to the mir-35(cdb4) variant. Slightly reduced brood size at 25C. Reference: Donnelly BF, et al. (2022). Cell Reports.

Superficially wild-type. Reference: Vieux K-F, et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab840 PMID: 34586415

bcSi69 [hsp-16.41p::dCas9::SV40-NLS::HA::GS-linker::SV40-NLS::GFP::GFP::SV40-NLS::mai-2 3’UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. [NOTE: MD4195 can be maintained at 20C instead of 15C because it does not carry an array with guide RNAs targeting essential genes.] Generated in parental strain EG8081. Reference: Memar N, et al. In vivo labeling of endogenous genomic loci in C. elegans using CRISPR/dCas9. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Dec 13;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. PMID: 36606081; PMCID: PMC9807462.

bcSi69 [hsp-16.41p::dCas9::SV40-NLS::HA::GS-linker::SV40-NLS::GFP::GFP::SV40-NLS::mai-2 3’UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. bcEx1367 [U6p::rrn-4(sgRNAs1-4 targeting the rrn-4 locus) + rol-6(su1006)]. Maintain at 15C. Pick Rollers to maintain. After heat shock, distinct spots of GFP fluorescence are visible in the nucleus. bcEx1367 array contains a PCR product of 4 different guide RNAs targeting rrn-4 (around 100 repeats of rrn-4 on LG V). Reference: Memar N, et al. In vivo labeling of endogenous genomic loci in C. elegans using CRISPR/dCas9. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Dec 13;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. PMID: 36606081; PMCID: PMC9807462.

bcSi69 [hsp-16.41p::dCas9::SV40-NLS::HA::GS-linker::SV40-NLS::GFP::GFP::SV40-NLS::mai-2 3’UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. bcEx1368 [U6p::rrn-1(sgRNAs1-4 targeting the rrn-1 locus) + rol-6(su1006)]. Maintain at 15C. Pick Rollers to maintain. After heat shock, distinct spots of GFP fluorescence are visible in the nucleus. bcEx1368 array contains a PCR product of 4 different guide RNAs targeting rrn-1 (around 100 repeats of rrn-1 on LG I). Reference: Memar N, et al. In vivo labeling of endogenous genomic loci in C. elegans using CRISPR/dCas9. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Dec 13;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. PMID: 36606081; PMCID: PMC9807462.

bcSi69 [hsp-16.41p::dCas9::SV40-NLS::HA::GS-linker::SV40-NLS::GFP::GFP::SV40-NLS::mai-2 3’UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. bcEx1370 [U6p::rrn-4(sgRNAs1-4 targeting the rrn-1 locus) + U6p::rrn-4(sgRNAs1-4 targeting the rrn-4 locus) + rol-6(su1006)]. Maintain at 15C. Pick Rollers to maintain. After heat shock, distinct spots of GFP fluorescence are visible in the nucleus. bcEx1370 array contains a PCR product of 4 different guide RNAs targeting rrn-1 (around 100 repeats of rrn-1 on LG I) and a PCR product of 4 different guide RNAs targeting rrn-4 (around 100 repeats of rrn-4 on LG V). Reference: Memar N, et al. In vivo labeling of endogenous genomic loci in C. elegans using CRISPR/dCas9. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Dec 13;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000701. PMID: 36606081; PMCID: PMC9807462.

mNeonGreen tag inserted at C-terminus of endogenous ced-3 locus. Generated in N2 background. Reference: Lambie EJ, et al. Cell Death Differ. 2025 Aug 27. doi: 10.1038/s41418-025-01567-8. PMID: 40866673.

mNeonGreen tag inserted at C-terminus of endogenous ced-4 locus. Generated in N2 background. Reference: Lambie EJ, et al. Cell Death Differ. 2025 Aug 27. doi: 10.1038/s41418-025-01567-8. PMID: 40866673.

mNeonGreen tag inserted at N-terminus of endogenous ced-9 locus. Generated in N2 background. Reference: Lambie EJ, et al. Cell Death Differ. 2025 Aug 27. doi: 10.1038/s41418-025-01567-8. PMID: 40866673. .

bcIs39 [lim-7p::ced-1::GFP + lin-15(+)]. Expression of functional CED-1::GFP fusion protein in the sheath cells.

vtIs1 [dat-1p::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] V. muEx261 [ceh-20::GFP + odr-1::RFP]. Pick RFP+ animals to maintain. Rollers. Embryonic lethality of ceh-20(ok541); ceh-40(gk159) double mutants is rescued by muEx261.

vtIs1 [dat-1p::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] V. muEx261 [ceh-20::GFP at C terminus + odr-1::RFP(su1006)]. Pick RFP+ animals to maintain. Rollers. Embryonic lethality of ceh-20(mu290); ceh-40(gk159) double mutants is rescued by muEx261. ot406 has a dopaminergic phenotype.

vtIs1 [dat-1p::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] V. muEx261 [ceh-20::GFP + odr-1::RFP]. Pick RFP+ animals to maintain. Rollers. Embryonic lethality of ceh-20(mu290); ceh-40(gk159) double mutants is rescued by muEx261.

hmIs4 [des-2::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Translational GFP fusion expressed on the membranes of PVD dendrites but not in the axon. Also expressed in m1 head muscles, IL2 neurons, FLP neurons and PVC neurons. Reference: Oren-Suissa M, et al. Science. 2010 Jun 4;328(5983):1285-8.

TI223.E1: AGACTTGAAGGAAACGCGAA. TI223.E2: AATCAAATTGAAACGGCTCG. TI223.I1: AATCCTTGCCAACCAAACAG. TI223.I2: CGTAGCATCCTTGGACCAGT. This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at OMRF, which is part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. http://www.mutantfactory.ouhsc.edu/

xsSi3 [GFP::utrophin + Cbr-unc-119(+)].  Superficially wild-type.  Carries a germline-expressed actin probe derived from the calponin homology domain of utrophin.  

xsSi5 [pie-1p::GFP::ani-1(AH+PH)::pie-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. The RhoA biosensor consists of GFP fused to the C-terminal portion of C. elegans anillin, which contain its conserved region (AH) and pleckstrin homology (PH) domain. It lacks the N-terminal myosin- and actin-binding domains but retains its RhoA-binding domain. [NOTE: xsSi5 was originally published as mgSi5.] References: Tse YC, et al. Mol Biol Cell. 2012 Oct;23(20):4020-31.

xsSi36 [myo-2p::GFP(Y66C)::let-858 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+) IV:13,048,924]. This strain contains a non-fluorescent GFP that can be used to enrich for CRISPR mediated, oligodirected homologous recombination. [NOTE: previously published as mgSi36.]  Reference: Zhang D & Glotzer M. 2014. Efficient site-specific editing of the C. elegans genome. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/007344.

ku194 is a loss of function allele, likely to be molecular null. Connection of gonad defective, >95% Egl. Anchor cell and uterine seam cell do not fuse. Males can mate. Hermaphrodites are very difficult to mate. Previously called cog-2(ku194).

Weak Vul phenotype. Suppressor of gain-of-function Ras. ku123 causes a C302Y substitution.

kuIs29 [egl-13p::GFP + unc-119(+)] V. egl-13 is the new gene name for cog-2. Transcriptional fusion of GFP to egl-13 gene. Nuclear localized. Bright expression in body wall muscles, expressed in uterine pi lineage, extensive neuronal expression. Note that a very low penetrance Cog phenotype is seen in this strain. Transgenes with egl-13 promoter can cause Cog phenotype. Conflicting map data: Wendy Hanna-Rose mapped kuIs129 to the left of dpy-11; Shi lab reported it close to gon-10 and unc-76.

kuIs34 [sem-4::GFP + unc-119(+)] IV. Superficially wild-type. Partial translational fusion reporter containing approximately half of SEM-4 fused in-frame to GFP. Reference: Lloret-Fernández et al. eLife 2018;7:e32785 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.32785. Grant K, et al. Dev Biol. 2000 Aug 15;224(2):496-506.