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Isolated as a single hermaphrodite from rotting wood in the garden of a private residence in Tien Mu, Taipai, Taiwan, Oct. 2, 2005. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Isolated as a single hermaphrodite from rotting wood in the garden of a private residence in Tien Mu, Taipai, Taiwan, Oct. 2, 2005. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Isolated as a single hermaphrodite from rotting wood in the garden of a private residence in Tien Mu, Taipai, Taiwan, Oct. 2, 2005. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Isolated as a single hermaphrodite from rotting wood in the garden of a private residence in Tien Mu, Taipai, Taiwan, Oct. 2, 2005. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated from compost from Jenny Pettifor's garden in the Paview neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 5, 2006. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): alpha. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Ceres, South Africa, on April 2, 2006. Lat: -33.3667; Lon: 19.31667. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated from compost at a plant nursery at the Ceres Fruit Farms in the Western Cape province near Ceres, South Africa, on May 5, 2006. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Ceres, South Africa, on April 2, 2006. Lat: -33.3667; Lon: 19.31667. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Ceres, South Africa, on April 2, 2006. Lat: -33.3667; Lon: 19.31667. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Ceres, South Africa, on April 2, 2006. Lat: -33.3667; Lon: 19.31667. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated from compost at a plant nursery at the Ceres Fruit Farms in the Western Cape province near Ceres, South Africa, on May 5, 2006. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): gamma. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Ceres, South Africa, on April 2, 2006. Lat: -33.3667; Lon: 19.31667. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Ceres, South Africa, on April 2, 2006. Lat: -33.3667; Lon: 19.31667. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated from compost at a plant nursery at the Ceres Fruit Farms in the Western Cape province near Ceres, South Africa, on May 5, 2006. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): delta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Limuru, Kenya, on May 17, 2006. Lat: -1.08333; Lon: 36.65. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): epsilon. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Reference: Dolgin ES, et al. Heredity (Edinb). 2008 Mar;100(3):304-15. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Limuru, Kenya, on May 17, 2006. Lat: -1.08333; Lon: 36.65. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): epsilon. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated from compost from the Olive Mushroom Farms near the town of Limuru, Kenya on May 17, 2006. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): epsilon. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Limuru, Kenya, on May 17, 2006. Lat: -1.08333; Lon: 36.65. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): epsilon. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated near Limuru, Kenya, on May 17, 2006. Lat: -1.08333; Lon: 36.65. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): epsilon. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. Isolated from leaf litter from the Uhuru Gardens public park in the south part of Nairobi, Kenya on May 17, 2006. Haplotype (according to Cutter 2006 and Dolgin et al 2008): beta. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis briggsae wild isolate. Isolated from compost from Jenny Pettifor's garden in the Paview neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 5, 2006. Landscape: Urban_garden. Isolated from a compost sample from a private garden in Johannesburg, South Africa, March-April 06 by E. Dolgin. Same compost sample as ED3078-3089. WBPaper00035666. GPS: -26.200001 28.000000, Johannesburg, South Africa. Substrate: compost_heap. Sampled_by: Elie Dolgin WBPerson12345. 2006. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis briggsae wild isolate. Isolated from leaf litter from the Uhuru Gardens public park in the south part of Nairobi, Kenya on May 17, 2006. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Caenorhabditis briggsae wild isolate. Isolated from leaf litter from the Uhuru Gardens public park in the south part of Nairobi, Kenya on May 17, 2006. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

mudIs1 [tph-1p::ChR2::GFP + myo-3p::mCherry]. When tph-1 mutants carrying mudIs1 are exposed to blue light, the worms continue to move rather than stopping like wild-type animals. Reference: Pokala N & Glater EE. 2018. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 162(2): A152-A158.

Isolated by Michael Ailion from rotting apricot from home of Wayne Davis and Danielle Endres in Salt Lake City, Utah, 8/4/2006, under tree on north side of house. Coordinates: 40° 42' 26.16" N, 111° 52' 3.27" W. Animals move very rapidly. Strain started from a single L4 hermaphrodite and grown three generations before freezing. 18S rDNA sequence differs from C. briggsae NCBI entry (PB102), but is identical to the 18S sequence of AF16, HK104, PB800 and VT847. Cross-fertile with AF16. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Mixed "strain" started from many different worms that emerged from the same apricot that gave rise to strain EG4181. Some worms emerged as dauers, but there were also L4s and adults. Consists of a mix of the worms that came from the apricot to try to maintain as much diversity as possible in the population and thus is not a true strain in the traditional sense. It will be sent as contaminated worms since it cannot be cleaned up without going through a bottleneck. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Utah natural isolate carrying peel-1(qq99) I. EG4348 was collected by M. Ailion from Salt Lake City, UT. qq99 designates the naturally occurring nonsense mutation in peel-1. Reference: Seidel HS et al. PLoS Biol. 2011 Jul;9(7):e1001115. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

oxIs253 [unc-122p::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Wild type. Very dim GFP expression in the coelomycytes. Only visible on compound microscope. Plasmid pCFJ68 inserted by MosSCI into ttTi5605 site.

oxIs279 [pie-1p::GFP::H2B + unc-119(+)]. Wild type. Persistent GFP expression in germline. Visible on dissection microscope. Plasmid pCFJ127 inserted by MosSCI into ttTi5605 site.

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Andersen EC, Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

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.

oxEx1088 [unc-17p::halorhodopsin::GFP + Litmus + lin-15(+)]. Maintain by picking wild-type.

oxEx1089 [unc-47p::halorhodopsin::GFP + Litmus + lin-15(+)]. Maintain by picking wild-type.

oxIs318 [spe-11p::mCherry::histone + unc-119(+)]. Wild type. Dim mCherry expression in hermaphrodite sperm. Barely visible on bright dissection microscope; visible on compound microscope. Plasmid pCFJ167 inserted by MosSCI into ttTi5605 site.

oxIs322 [myo-2p::mCherry::H2B + myo-3p::mCherry::H2B + Cbr-unc-119(+)]. Wild type worms with mCherry fluorescence in pharyngeal and body wall muscle. Visible on dissection microscope at high magnification. Complex transgene insertion in place of Mos1 allele ttTi5605. Useful for following "invisible" insertions at ttTi5605 site by Mos1 Single Copy gene Insertion (MosSCI). Please note: The insertion was a complex event pulling in more than one transgene and parts of the array. Therefore, the exact molecular structure of the insert is not known. Therefore the strain should NOT be used as a control for insert copy number or other detailed molecular controls of MosSCI insertions. Succesfully used as a balancer for the ttTi5605 locus.

C. elegans wild isolate. Reference: Andersen EC, et al. Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

oxIs351 contains [unc-47p::channelrhodopsin::mCherry + lin-15(+) + Litmus]. Superficially wild-type.

oxIs353 contains [myo-3p::channelrhodopsin::mCherry + lin-15(+) + Litmus]. Superficially wild-type.

oxIs363 [unc-122p::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Wild type. Very dim GFP expression in the coelomycytes. Only visible on compound microscope. Plasmid pBN04 inserted by MosSCI into cxTi10882 site.

oxIs364 contains [unc-17p::channelrhodopsin::mCherry + lin-15(+) + Litmus]. Superficially wild-type.

Caenorhabditis sp. 9 Male-female strain. Isolated from a sample collected by Joel Ehrenkranz on May 20, 2008, around 11 AM in Shinkolobwe, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (~11°S, 26°E). The sample was collected from worked soil which contained organic material around the foundation of a wattle hut. This time of year was the dry season in Katanga Province, so daytime temperatures were in the high 70s and nighttime temperatures in the low 50s. The specimen was placed in a ziplock bag with a slice of apple for transport to Susan Mango's lab at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah. From the date of collection until the specimen reached the lab was approximately 2 weeks.

Caenorhabditis sp. 14 Male-female strain. Isolated from a rotten horse chestnut (Tahitian chestnut?) collected by David Ailion on the island of Moorea (17.53 S, 149.83 W) on July 24, 2009.

qqIr7 [peel-1(qq99)] I. oxSi78 [peel-1p::peel-1 (introns included)::GFP::peel-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Genetic background is a mixture of N2 and wild isolate EG4348. The oxSi78 insertion produces a PEEL-1::GFP translational fusion. PEEL-1::GFP is expressed in the spermatogenic germline and packaged into sperm. PEEL-1::GFP appears to localize to fibrous body-membranous organelles. PEEL-1::GFP does not rescue peel-1(qq99). Reference: Seidel HS, et al. PLoS Biol. 2011 Jul;9(7):e1001115.