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F44G4.4 Homozygous. Outer Left Sequence: TTTCCCTGTCGGTTTTGAAC. Outer Right Sequence: GTGAACACGAGTTCCGAGGT. Inner Left Sequence: TTTTGCTCGGAGATTTTTGG. Inner Right Sequence: TGTGAACACGACGCCATACT. Inner Primer PCR Length: 2144. Estimated Deletion Size: about 1100 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which was part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

F19B6.4 Homozygous. Outer Left Sequence: GTGCCTCATTAAGCAATCGG. Outer Right Sequence: ATCATTTGGCGCAGAAAATC. Inner Left Sequence: CCCCACTCAAAAGTCACGAT. Inner Right Sequence: GGCCACAGTTCGATCTCATT. Inner Primer PCR Length: 3307. Estimated Deletion Size: about 1300 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which was part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

C41C4.7 Homozygous. Outer Left Sequence: ACTGTCGGATCCATGACACA. Outer Right Sequence: CCGTTCTCTCGGTCAATCAT. Inner Left Sequence: GTCCGCTGGTTTTCACATCT. Inner Right Sequence: GTGGCATTTTTGCTCGTTCT. Inner Primer PCR Length: 2465. Estimated Deletion Size: about 2000 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which was part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

F41E6.6 Homozygous. Outer Left Sequence: TGTTAACTGCTGCTGCGTCT. Outer Right Sequence: AGCAATTGTTCGAAGATCCG. Inner Left Sequence: CCTTGGGAGACACCACAACT. Inner Right Sequence: CCTGCACTCCACACACATTC. Inner Primer PCR Length: 2729. Estimated Deletion Size: about 1200 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which was part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

Y75B8A.1 Homozygous. Outer Left Sequence: TAATGGGACAGAAAGGCACC. Outer Right Sequence: CTACTTGCTCCTCCGTCGAG. Inner Left Sequence: TTGACGCGCAAAATATCTCA. Inner Right Sequence: CAATGCCACAGAGAAAAGCA. Inner Primer PCR Length: 2951. Estimated Deletion Size: about 2000 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which was part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

Reference WBG 9(3) 29 and 10(2) 140-141. npr-1 pka bor-1. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate (Tc1 pattern HCF).

Cephalobidae family. Cephalobus sp. Isolated by Susan Euling from soil near a roadway in Pontianak, Borneo, Indonesia in December 1994. Family and genus identification by Lynn Carta.

qIs26 [lag-2::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] III.  Maintain by picking GFP+ Rollers (GFP expression in both pharynx and distal tip cells). Heterozygotes are Rol GFP+ (GFP expression in both pharynx and distal tip cells), and segregate Rol GFP+ (GFP expression in both pharynx and distal tip cells), non-Rol GFP+ (GFP only in pharynx) ve940 homozygotes (Unc, arrest as larvae with a curled tail). qC1[qIs26] is homozygous lethal (unknown stage). Deletion of 1847 bp with Calarco/Colaiacovo selection cassette conferring myo-2 GFP and G418 resistance inserted at break in parental strain N2. Left flanking Sequence: CCGCTTCGATATCCACCACCGGATCCTCCA; Right flanking sequence: TGGAAGATATTGCACTGGTGGTCGTGCTTC. rnp-7 sgRNA A: GGAAGCCGATACAGTACAGG; rnp-7 sgRNA B: ACTAGTAGGTCCTGGCATGG. Please reference Au et al., G3 9(1): 135-144 2019 in any work resulting from use of this mutation.

umnIs52 [myo-2p::mKate2 + NeoR, III: 8856215 (intergenic)] II. Arrested larvae. Deletion of 1712 bp with Calarco/Colaiacovo selection cassette conferring myo-2 GFP and G418 resistance inserted at break in parental strain N2. Heterozygotes are wild-type GFP+ mKate2+, and segregate wild-type GFP+ mKate2+ heterozygotes, GFP+ non-mKate2 arrested early larvae (ve952 homozygotes), sterile Dpy non-GFP mKate2+ (mT1 homozygotes), and dead eggs (aneuploids). Maintain by picking wild-type GFP+ mKate2+ and check for correct segregation of progeny. Note: This strain exhibits pleiotropic expression of GFP in body wall. Left flanking Sequence: tttccacactcagtcccccctgctctgccg; Right flanking sequence: CTCAAGGGAGTCGAAGACGGAGAAGGCATG. mlc-3 crRNA A: atgtgtgagtgttgcagcgg; mlc-3 crRNA B: GAGCTCATCGGCCTCATCGG. Please reference Au et al., G3 9(1): 135-144 2019 in any work resulting from use of this mutation.

qIs26 [lag-2::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] III.  Larval arrest. Deletion of 2015 bp with Calarco/Colaiacovo selection cassette conferring myo-2 GFP and G418 resistance inserted at break in parental strain N2. Heterozygotes are Rol GFP+(pharynx and distal tip cell), and segregate Rol GFP+(pharynx and distal tip cell), non-Rol GFP+(pharynx) arrested larvae (ve993 homozygotes). qC1[qIs26] is homozygous lethal(unknown stage). Maintain by picking Rol GFP+(pharynx and distal tip cell). Note: this strain exhibits ectopic body wall GFP expression. Left flanking Sequence: aaggctcgacatgtaattacacacatacCT; Right flanking sequence: AGGGGAACATCAAGTCCAGGGAATGCATCT. rars-1 crRNA A: GTTATTGAAAATAAGGAAGG; rars-1 crRNA B: TTGGAGTTTCAGCGAGGAGC. Please reference Au et al., G3 9(1): 135-144 2019 in any work resulting from use of this mutation.

wIs78 [SCMp::GFP + ajm-1p::GFP + F58E10 (cosmid) + unc-119(+)] IV. GFP expression in seam cells and adherens junctions. Check periodically for GFP in seam cells to retain robust expression. ajm-1 previously called jam-1. Derived by outcrossing JR1000. It is not know whether the ced-1(e1735) or unc-119(ed4) mutations are still present, as the array rescues both phenotypes. wIs78 males do not mate very well; heterozygotes mate fine.

Male-female strain. This strain is conspecific with PS1010 by mating tests. It was established from a single female. The species was isolated in Sept 2003 by Robin Giblin Davis from an individual of the weevil Metamasius hemipterus. The beetle was collected in Fort Lauderdale, FL. sp. 3 in Kiontke and Sudhaus Wormbook Ecology chapter.

uthSi17 [myo-3p::MLS::GFP::unc-54 3’UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] I. Single-copy insertion. MLS::GFP reporter uses myo-3 promoter and atp-1 mitochondrial localization sequence; localizes to mitochondrial matrix in body-wall muscle cells. Derived by out-crossing parental strain AGD1664 (EG6701 background) to N2. Reference: Kim J, et al. J Vis Exp. 2025 Jan 17:(215). doi: 10.3791/67610. PMID: 39895615.

uthSi7 [myo-3p::LifeAct::mRuby::unc-54 3'UTR, Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. Single-copy insertion of LifeAct::mRuby labels F-actin in body wall muscle cells. Out-crossed to N2. Reference: Higuchi-Sanabria R, et al. Mol Biol Cell. 2018 Oct 15;29(21):2522-2527. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E18-06-0362. PMID: 30133343

Large body. Egl.

Ric, Egl, severely locomotion defective, reduced body flexion/straight posture, pharyngeal pumping and growth rate slightly lower than WT. Does not reproduce at 25C. Brood size about 1/10 of WT at 20C, and about 1/3 of WT at 14C. 29% of eggs do not hatch. Early embryogenesis defects include misalignment of mitotic spindles and delayed migration of nuclei. Grows best at 14C but you can still work with it and do crosses at 20C.

Egl. Ric. Reduced locomotion and pharyngeal pumping. Reduced body flexion at rest, but loopy backing.

Knock-out allele ok237 is a large (2229-bp) deletion. Coordinates: leftmost deleted base = 35441 of K02G10; rightmost deleted base = 296 of F55D10. ok237 eliminates almost all of K02G10.8 (dnj-14) and also the 5'-part of F55D10.3 (glit-1, encodes a homolog of gliotactin), as well as the presumed promoter regions between the 2 genes. In addition, F55D10.3 could be the first member of an operon, with F55D10.2 (aka rpl25.1, which encodes a ribosomal protein) as the second member of the operon. The deletion is likely to eliminate the expression of 2 or 3 genes, not just dnj-14.

cn355 behaves like other unc-17 hypomorphs (coily Unc, slow growth, aldicarb-resistant, etc.); however, the mutation is in the splice site necessary for generating unc-17 transcripts, so that unc-17 transcripts and UNC-17 protein are dramatically reduced (hence the unc-17 behavioral phenotypes), and the cha-1 transcripts, CHA-1 protein, and ChAT enzyme activity are significantly increased (Mathews et al., 2015). Note: UNC-17 and CHA-1 protein sequences are both completely wild-type; the phenotypes derive from the extremely low level of the (wild-type) UNC-17 protein. Flanking Sequences: AAATTTAGAAAAAATAAAATATTCC/ A>G /GGGGGAGAGAGAGAGATGGGCTTCA (in direction of transcription). Reference: Mathews EA, et al. Genetics. 2015 Mar;199(3):729-37.

GFP tag inserted in endogenous unc-94 locus; specifically tags UNC-94A isoform. Green fluorescence is visible by compound microscopy as striations in body wall muscles, as elongated puncta in single-sarcomere (anal depressor, uterine, and vulval) muscles, as well as the cell bodies of two neurons. Not visible on fluorescent dissection microscopes. Modifcation of the endogenous myo-3 loci by the insertion of a trans-splicing ICR region and worm-optimized mCherry at region encoding the head-neck junction. Bright red fluorescence is visible as striations in body wall muscles and clusters in single-sarcomere (anal depressor, vuvla, uterine) muscles. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

rpl-13(ftw73[rpl-13::SL2::GFP::dpy-10]) I. Endogenous locus co-expresses GFP by trans-splicing using CRISPR-Cas9. Green fluorescence visible thoughout body by dissection fluorescence microscopy. D10 (dpy-10) CRISPR/Cas9 entry site is located downstream of the GFP coding region. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

GFP tag inserted in endogenous unc-94 locus; specifically tags UNC-94A isoform. Green fluorescence is visible by compound microscopy as striations in body wall muscles, as elongated puncta in single-sarcomere (anal depressor, uterine, and vulval) muscles, as well as the cell bodies of two neurons. Not visible on fluorescent dissection microscopes. Outcrossed parental strain RSL3 with N2. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Endogenous rpl-13 locus modified using CRISPR-Cas0 to co-express GFP::SYNZIP fusion by trans-splicing. Green fluorescence visible thoughout body. Off-target background mutation might be present resulting in reduced progeny. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Endogenous mlc-2 locus co-expresses LifeAct peptide fused to wrmScarlet. Myosin light chain is untagged. Bright red fluorescence in all muscles is visible by dissection fluorescence microscopy. Broad bands of fluorescence are visible in body wall muscle by confocal microscopy. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work with this strain.

Dumpy roller. Endogenous mlc-2 locus co-expresses LifeAct peptide fused to wrmScarlet. Myosin light chain is untagged. Bright red fluorescence in all muscles is visible by dissection fluorescence microscopy. Broad bands of fluorescence are visible in body wall muscle by confocal microscopy. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work with this strain.

unc-54(ftw19[NLS::mCherry::SL2::GFP::unc-54]) I. myo-3(ftw16[NLS::GFP::SL2::mCherry::myo-3]) V. Endogenous unc-54 locus tagged with NLS::GFP and mCherry using CRISPR/Cas9; coexpressed from the endogenous promoter using trans-splicing. Body muscles have bright green fluorescence within myofibrils and bright red nuclei visible by dissection fluorescence microscopy. Slow movement and slightly impaired egg-laying. Endogenous myo-3 locus tagged with NLS::GFP and mCherry using CRISPR/Cas9; coexpressed from the endogenous promoter using trans-splicing. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

GFP tag inserted in endogenous unc-94 locus; specifically tags UNC-94A isoform. mCherry tag inserted into endogenous tni-3 locus; GFP::NLS coexpressed from the endogenous tni-3 promoter via SL2 trans-splicing. GFP::UNC-94 is visible by compound microscopy as striations in body wall muscles, as elongated puncta in single-sarcomere (anal depressor, uterine, and vulval) muscles, as well as the cell bodies of two neurons. GFP::UNC-94 is not visible on fluorescent dissection microscopes. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

GFP tag inserted in endogenous unc-94 locus; specifically tags UNC-94A isoform. mCherry tag inserted into endogenous myo-3 locus; GFP::NLS coexpressed from the endogenous myo-3 promoter via SL2 trans-splicing. GFP::UNC-94 is visible by compound microscopy as striations in body wall muscles, as elongated puncta in single-sarcomere (anal depressor, uterine, and vulval) muscles, as well as the cell bodies of two neurons. GFP::UNC-94 is not visible on fluorescent dissection microscopes. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Endogenous locus tagged with GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. NLS-mCherry co-expressed from the endogenous promoter using trans-splicing. Body muscles have bright green fluorescence within myofibrils and bright red nuclei visible by dissection fluorescence microscopy. Slow movement and slightly impaired egg-laying. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Modifcation of the endogenous myo-3 loci by the insertion of a trans-splicing ICR region and worm-optimized mCherry at region encoding the head-neck junction. Bright red fluorescence is visible as striations in body wall muscles and clusters in single-sarcomere (anal depressor, vuvla, uterine) muscles. Worms are phenotypically wildtype. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Endogenous locus tagged with GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. Body muscles are visibly green by dissection fluorescence microscopy. WT movement and behavior. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Endogenous locus tagged with GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. Body muscles are visibly green by dissection fluorescence microscopy except for the BWMs near the head. WT movement and behavior. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

ftwEx1 [mlc-2p::GFP::SL2::mCherry::mlc-2]. Pick GFP+ to maintain. Extrachromosomal array expressing GFP and mCherry in muscles. Pharynx and bodywall muscles are visibly bright green by dissection fluorescence microscopy. WT movement and behavior. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Severing and tagging of endogenous locus with trans-splicing ICR and GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. Pharynx and body muscles are green fluorescent and visible by dissection fluorescence microscopy. Severing is located upstream of kinase domain. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Severing and tagging of endogenous unc-22 locus with trans-splicing ICR and GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. muIs252 [eft-3p::wrmScarlet1-10::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Pharynx and body muscles are green and red fluorescent and visible by dissection fluorescence microscopy. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Severing and tagging of endogenous unc-22 locus with trans-splicing ICR and GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. muIs257 [myo-3p::wrmScarlet1-10::unc-54 3'UTR] I. Pharynx and body muscles are green; red fluorescence only in body wall muscles. Please contact Ryan Littlefield prior to publishing work using this strain.

Temperature-sensitive. Maintain at 15C. Phenotype dependent upon time of temperature shift: embryonic shift is Let, L3 shift is Spe, adult shift is Emb, additional defects include variations in body size, male tail defects, and paralysis. [NOTE (04/22/13): it appears this strain is carrying an unknown Him mutation.] Reference: Kulkarni M, Smith HE. PLoS Genet. 2008 Jul 18;4(7):e1000131.

Point mutation. Dominant. Slow moving Unc. Body Muscle abnormal. Growth slow. Reverts spontaneously.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, Uncs (at 20C and 25C) and Pats. Maintain by picking WT at or above 20C. See also WBPaper00005261.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, Pats and Uncs. st557 is antibody negative.

Heterozygotes are WT and segreate WT, Dpy Steriles, and lethals: arrested elongation at 2 fold; body wall muscle cells detach at embryonic stage when the muscle cells begin to contract - therefore, little embryonic movement is observed.

tjIs5 [pie-1p::GFP::plk-1 + unc-119(+)]. GFP::PLK-1 is found at the mitotic centrosomes, kinetochores, and midbody in early embyros. pID3.01-plk-1. Integration site unknown. Maintain at 25C to avoid transgene silencing.

tjIs6 [pie-1p::GFP::cdc-42 + unc-119(+)]. GFP::CDC-42 localizes to basement membranes in both embryos and germline, and to the anterior cortex of one-cell embryos. pID3.01-cdc-42. Integration site unknown.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, dead eggs (homozygous cdl-1(w37)), and DpyUnc. w37 carries a 4.7kb deletion that removed the entire cdl-1 ORF and part of the neighboring ORF (T19E10.1), with a small insetion of about 60 bp.

Male-female strain. Isolated in Bohorok, Sumatra from humus-like material probably from banana plants by P. Blum in June 1975. Conspecific with CB5161 by mating tests, and with CB5161, LKC28 and SB280 by RNA Polymerase II largest subunit sequence. sp. 4 in Kiontke and Sudhaus Wormbook Ecology chapter.

Rhabditis (Rhabditis) brassicae Southern, 1909. Found 3.10.87 in turf near a bank, Traben-Trarbach (Rheinland-Pfalz/Germany) (leg. M. Nimrich). Literature (description and ecological information): besides original description from Southern, 1909 : Buckley (1931): J. Helminth. 9: 197-204 (about R. broughtonalcocki, this is synonym to R. brassicae).

Male-female strain. Isolated by W. Sudhaus on Guadeloupe from rotting banana leaves on June 16, 1996. Conspecific with CB5161 by mating tests, and with CB5161, LKC28 and SB129 by RNA Polymerase II largest subunit sequence. sp. 4 in Kiontke and Sudhaus Wormbook Ecology chapter.

gaIs153 [(pPRSK29) F25B3.3p::FLAG::pab-1 + sur-5::GFP]. Pan-neural expression of FLAG-tagged PAB-1. Detect PAB-1 using anti-FLAG M2 antibody from Sigma. No map data for integrated transgene.

gaIs286 [unc-62(7b)::TY1::EGFP::3xFLAG(92C12) + unc-119(+)]. TY1::EGFP::3xFLAG tag inserted in frame at C-terminus of coding sequence by recombineering. A STOP-codon was inserted into exon 7a of unc-62 to generate an UNC-62(7b)-specific reporter. Recombineered fosmid was integrated by biolistic bombardment to produce strain OP602, which wa outcrossed to produce SD1894. References: Sarov, M, et al. Nat Methods (2006) 10:839-44. Gerstein MB, et al. Science. 2010 Dec 24;330(6012):1775-87. Strain was constructed as part of the Regulatory Element Project, part of modENCODE (http://www.modencode.org) Derived from parental strains BC1282 and SD1894.

gaIs285 [unc-62(7a)::TY1::EGFP::3xFLAG(92C12) + unc-119(+)]. TY1::EGFP::3xFLAG tag inserted in frame at C-terminus of coding sequence by recombineering. A STOP-codon was inserted into exon 7b of unc-62 to generate an UNC-62(7a)-specific reporter. Recombineered fosmid was integrated by biolistic bombardment to produce strain OP601, which wa outcrossed to produce SD1888. References: Sarov, M, et al. Nat Methods (2006) 10:839-44. Gerstein MB, et al. Science. 2010 Dec 24;330(6012):1775-87. Strain was constructed as part of the Regulatory Element Project, part of modENCODE (http://www.modencode.org).