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0013. Pelodera strongyloides. Male/Female strain. See WBG 12(5) 14. Originally came from Sudhaus.

WT strain. Mesorhabditis longespiculosa. Isolated by W. Sudhaus on August 16, 1973 from tunnels of beetle larvae (Mallodon downesi?, Cerambycidae) in Euphorbiaceae at lake Nakuru, Kenya. See WBG 12(5) 14. Male/Female strain.

WT strain. Rhabditis (Pellioditis) typica. Male/Female strain. Isolated by W. Sudhaus on Sept. 3, 1973 from feces of an antelope in Tsavo National Park, Kenya. See WBG 12(5) 14. Formerly known as Rhabditis (Pellioditis) typica.

WT strain. Oscheius sp. See WBG 12(5) 14. Male/Female strain. Collected by a Belgian expedition to the Galapagos archipelago. From Gaetan Borgonie, Gent University, Belgium.

Male/Female strain. Pelodera strongyloides. See WBG 12(5) 14. Originally came from Victor Ambros.

Isofemale line. Isolated from a rotten lemon collected at Chan Chich Lodge in the town of Gallon Jug, Orange Walk, Belize (17.56399°N, 89.046282°W) on 11/15/12.

e1350 is a recessive Dpy, dominant Roller. Unc.

sacy-1(tn1385) partially suppresses fog-2(oz40) self-sterility. Reference: Kim S, et al. 2012 Genetics

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mNeonGreen and Flag tags inserted at 5' end of endogenous cpg-1 locus. Superficially wild type.

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emb-30(tn377ts) conditionally suppresses mdf-1(gk2). Maintain at 15C.

DH subclone of C. briggsae Zuckerman. This stock was maintained in liquid culture for some number of years, and has acquired mutations that have not been named or mapped. It is Unc, dauer-defective and ts lethal. Previously called C. briggsae BO. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Temperature sensitive roller. PKA rol-4.

Superficially wild-type. sup-36 suppresses temperature-sensitive lethality of pha-1(e2123). Constructed by crossing GE24 and MT14541.

otIs197 [unc-14p::hif-1(P621A) + ttx-3p::RFP]. Non-degradable form of HIF-1 expressed from unc-14 promoter in hif-1 mutant background for tissue-specific rescuing experiments. otIs197 rescues lethality in hif-1 mutant animals exposed to 50ppm hydrogen sulfide. Reference: Topalidou I & and Miller DL. bioRxiv 174581; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/174581.

otEx3165 [unc-120p::hif-1(P621A) + ttx-3p::RFP]. Non-degradable form of HIF-1 expressed from muscle-specific promoter in hif-1 mutant background for tissue-specific rescuing experiments. otEx3165 does not rescue lethality in hif-1 mutant animals exposed to 50ppm hydrogen sulfide. Reference: Topalidou I & and Miller DL. bioRxiv 174581; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/174581.

wrdSi22 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR::SEC[LoxP + let-858 term + sqt-1(d) + hs::Cre + hygR + unc-54 term + LoxP]] I. wrdSi22 is inserted at ttTi4348 (-5.32 cM). Pick Rollers to maintain animals retaining the SEC in the insertion. SEC can be removed by heat shock-induced excision according to the protocol in Dickinson et. al. Genetics 2015. Pan-somatic expression of TIR1 co-factor for AID, and expression of AID*-tagged blue protein in somatic nuclei. Auxin-inducible degradation (AID*) tag inserted at N-terminus of endogenous unc-52 locus by CRISPR/Cas9. References: Cahoon CK, Libuda DE. G3 (Bethesda). 2021 Oct 19;11(11):jkab310. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab310. PMID: 34534266; PMCID: PMC8527506. Ashley GE, et al. Genetics. 2021 Mar 31;217(3):iyab006. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab006. PMID: 33677541

WT in appearance and movement. Some slight muscle disorganization and gonad disorganization. Slightly reduced brood size. Only suppresses the unc-52(e1421) allele.

Superficially wild-type. Temperature-sensistive. Maintain at 15C. hsp-1(ra807) is a missense allele that replaces the conserved Ala379 residue to a Val residue in the ATPase domain of the HSP-1 protein and fully suppresses the bent-head phenotype of unc-23(e25). Animals are sterile or arrest development as larvae at when grown at 20-25C. Reference: Rahmani P, Rogalski T, Moerman DG. (2015) Worm. In press.

Dpy. hsp-1(ra807) is a missense allele that replaces the conserved Ala379 residue to a Val residue in the ATPase domain of the HSP-1 protein and fully suppresses the bent-head phenotype of unc-23(e25). Reference: Rahmani P, Rogalski T, Moerman DG. (2015) Worm. In press.

raEx11 [(pDM#208) unc-112(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Maintain by picking Rollers. raEx11 rescues the r367 phenotype. Segregates Unc-112 and Rollers.

raEx20 [unc-23::GFP + rol-6(su1006) + pPD95.75(GFP)]. Rollers. Pick Rollers to maintain. raEx20 encodes a functional GFP::tagged UNC-23 protein. Reference: Rahmani P, Rogalski T, Moerman DG. (2015) Worm. In press.

raEx20 [unc-23::GFP + rol-6(su1006) + pPD95.75(GFP)]. Rollers. Pick Rollers to maintain. raEx20 encodes a functional GFP::tagged UNC-23 protein. Reference: Rahmani P, Rogalski T, Moerman DG. (2015) Worm. In press.

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.

raIs8 [unc-112::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. raIs8 produces a fully functional GFP-tagged UNC-112 protein that localizes to the dense bodies and M-line in muscle cells. Derived by integrating raEx16 in DM7016.

Homozygotes have defective spermatheca development causing low brood size, abnormally shaped eggs, and occasional Egl. nhr-6(lg6000) allele was originally generated by Marius Hoener and Tri Nguyen.

Endogenously-tagger reporters allow simultaneous visualization of endogenous LIN-12 localization and lag-2 expression levels. Reference: Medwig-Kinney TN, et al. An in vivo toolkit to visualize endogenous LAG-2/Delta and LIN-12/Notch signaling in C. elegans. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Jul 28;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000602. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000602. PMID: 35966395.

cshIs140 [rpl-28p::TIR1(F79G)::T2A::mCherry::HIS-11] II. Allows for conditional degradation of endogenous LIN-12 using 5-Ph-IAA. Reference: Pani AM, et al. A new toolkit to visualize and perturb endogenous LIN-12/Notch signaling in C. elegans. MicroPubl Biol. 2022 Jul 28;2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000603. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000603. PMID: 35966394.

Pick Rollers to maintain. Endogenous N-term tagged DPFF-1 with mNG::AID* using the self-excising cassette for drug selection. Animals are rollers which contains sqt-1 gene. Remove the SEC for normal expression using the protocol described in "Dickinson DJ et al. Genetics. 2015 Aug;200(4):1035-49. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.178335. Epub 2015 Jun 3. PMID: 26044593."

GFP reporter inserted internally into endogenous egl-43 locus. Reference: Medwig-Kinney TN, et al. Development. 2020 Jan 2;147(1).

GFP reporter inserted into N-terminus of endogenous egl-43 locus specifically tags the long isoform. Reference: Medwig-Kinney TN, et al. Development. 2020 Jan 2;147(1).

bmdSi141 [loxN::eft-3p::his-58::GFP] I. Slow growing. Maintain at 15-20C. bmdSi141 is a single-copy CRISPR/Cas9-engineered insertion of HIS-58 C-terminally tagged with codon-optimized GFP and driven by the ubiquitous eft-3 promoter. Reference: Azmi MA, et al. bioRxiv 2020.10.17.344069; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.17.344069

bmdSi170 [loxN::eft-3p::his-58::GFP::3xHA] I. Superficially wild-type. bmdSi170 is a single-copy CRISPR/Cas9-engineered insertion of HIS-58 C-terminally tagged with non-codon-optimized GFP and driven by the ubiquitous eft-3 promoter. Reference: Azmi MA, et al. bioRxiv 2020.10.17.344069; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.17.344069

Paralyzed coiler. Slightly Egl. Slightly short. About half do not survive to adulthood-arrest usually in L1. See also WBPaper00001868.

Reference WBG 10(2) 140-141. Previously called Bergerac LY and Bergerac BO. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DR subclone of Bergerac BO (Tc1 pattern HCA). For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

daf-d. Weak heterochronic phenotypes in seam, somatic gonad, intestine. Class III allele.

Temperature-sensitive dauer-consitutive, long-lived, intrinsically thermotolerant. Adults slightly shorter than adults of other daf-2 alleles. Up to 6% of L1s arrest at 25.5C. Makes nearly 100% dauers at 25C, 0% dauers at 15C. Good recovery of dauers at 15C.

Class 2 allele of daf-2. Temperature sensitive Daf-c. Adults are long-lived (Age) and exhibit extrinsic thermotolerance (Itt).

Adults Age and Itt and temperature sensitive Unc (class 2 allele). m579 results in an amino acid substitution(R437C) in the extracellular portion of the DAF-2 receptor (specifically, the Cys-rich domain).

Class 1 allele of daf-2. Temperature sensitive Daf-c. Adults are long-lived (Age) and exhibit extrinsic thermotolerance (Itt).

Class 1 allele of daf-2. Temperature sensitive Daf-c. Maintain at 15C. Adults are long-lived (Age) and exhibit extrinsic thermotolerance (Itt).

Maintain at 15C.  Class 1 allele of daf-2. Temperature sensitive Daf-c. Adults are long-lived (Age) and exhibit extrinsic thermotolerance (Itt).

Class 2 allele of daf-2. Temperature sensitive Daf-c. Adults are long-lived (Age) and exhibit extrinsic thermotolerance (Itt). Produces some dauers at 15C. CGC received new stock 10/25/00 from David Gems. Received new stock from Patrice Albert in the Riddle lab 6/04.