Search Strains

oxTi1128 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272]) I. Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. Inserted into W01A8.6. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

oxTi1128 [mex-5p::Cas9(+smu-2 introns)::tbb-2 3'UTR + hsp-16.41p::Cre::tbb-2 3'UTR + myo-2p::2xNLS::cyOFP::let-858 3'UTR + lox2272]) I. Outcrossed to remove unc-119 mutation. Superficially wild-type. Cas9 insertion marked with myo-2p::cyOFP (cyan-excitable Orange Fluorescent Protein), a long-Stokes-shift fluorescent protein that is spectrally separable from common green and red fluorophores. Inserted into W01A8.6. Reference: Schwartz ML, et al. High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. bioRxiv 2021.08.03.454883; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.454883

egxSi126 [mex-5p::hsp-3(aa1-19)::halotag::HDEL::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] I. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of Halotag in the ER lumen in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

egxSi136 [mex-5p::tomm-20::halotag::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] II. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of TOMM-20 tagged with Halo on the outer membranes of mitochondria in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

egxSi144 [mex-5p::cox-4::halotag::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119 (+)] II. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of COX-4 tagged with Halo in the mitochondrial matrix in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

egxSi145 [mex-5p::hsp-3(aa1-19)::halotag::HDEL::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] II. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of Halotag in the ER lumen in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

egxSi152 [mex-5p: tomm-20::gfp::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] II. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of TOMM-20 tagged with GFP on the outer membranes of mitochondria in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

egxSi155 [mex-5p::tomm-20::mKate2::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] II. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of TOMM-20 tagged with mKate2 on the outer membranes of mitochondria in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

egxSi157 [mex-5p::tomm-20::Dendra2::pie-1 3’UTR + unc-119(+)] II. Superficially wild-type. Stable expression of TOMM-20 tagged with photoconvertible Dendra2 on the outer membranes of mitochondria in the germline and embryos. Reference: Fan X, et al. G3 (accepted).

Heterozygotes are Unc and segregate Unc, non-Unc Steriles, larval lethals and dead eggs. dx19 is a strong lin-45 raf allele: dx19 homozygotes from dx19/+ heterozygous parents are 13% larval lethal and among the adults, 100% are Sterile and Vul.

cmEx6 [(pBR126) mbk-2p::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Maintain by picking Rollers.

om33 chromosome contains a linked fer-6 allele and a linked Mel. Mel probably not associated with om33, but they have not been separated. Best grown at 15C.

pup-4/F43E2.1. Maintain at 15-20C. Homozygotes produce <1% sterile individuals at 25C after multiple generations. ~10% of fertile individuals contain one infertile gonad arm. om140 is a CRISPR-engineered internal deletion removing most of the pup-4 coding sequence. Reference: Kelley L, et al. Development. 2024 Oct 7;228(2):iyae120. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae120. PMID: 39067069.

pup-4/F43E2.1. Maintain at 15-20C. Homozygotes produce <1% sterile individuals at 25C after multiple generations. ~10% of fertile individuals contain one infertile gonad arm. om141 is a CRISPR-engineered deletion removing the entire pup-4 coding sequence. Reference: Kelley L, et al. Development. 2024 Oct 7;228(2):iyae120. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae120. PMID: 39067069.

3xFlag tag inserted at C-terminus of endogenous pup-4/F43E2.1 locus using CRISPR/Cas9. Reference: Kelley L, et al. Development. 2024 Oct 7;228(2):iyae120. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae120. PMID: 39067069.

Male phenotype: loss of rays 7-9; incomplete penetrance/expressivity (80%); T lineage defect. Hermaphrodite phenotype: lowered brood size (100 progeny/hermaphrodite). Hypomorphic allele: uDf1/mab-19(bx38) results in embryonic arrest during morphogenesis.

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.

Unc. Abnormal rays. bx25 previously called ram-4.

lep-2/Y55F3AM.6 reference allele. Him. Reference: Herrera RA, et al. Development. 2016 Mar 1;143(5):799-809. doi: 10.1242/dev.132738. PMID: 26811380.

Male phenotype: loss of rays 7-9; incomplete penetrance/expressivity (80%); T lineage defect. Hermaphrodite phenotype: lowered brood size (100 progeny/hermaphrodite). Hypomorphic allele: uDf1/mab-19(bx83) results in embryonic arrest during morphogenesis.

WT strain, Pellioditis pelhamensis. See WBG 12(5)14. Male/Female strain. Previously and incorrectly called Rhabditis maupasi by the CGC. Also previously called DF5039.

WT strain, Pelodera teres. See WBG 12(5) 14. Male/Female strain. Previously called DF5016.

Male-female strain. Reference WBG 11(4):89. See also WBPaper00001874. May crawl off the plates. Previously called C. vulgaris BK and C. vulgariensis BK. Walter Sudhaus has tentatively described this strain as C. remanei ssp. vulgaris; this description is not official and is contigent upon its being published. See WBPaper00002633 and WBPaper00003993.

V6 produces rays instead of alae in pal-1; sop01 mutants. No obvious phenotype in a pal-1(+) background. Previously called sop-1(bx92).

V6 produces rays instead of alae in pal-1; sop01 mutants. No obvious phenotype in a pal-1(+) background. Previously called sop-1(bx93).

V6 produces rays instead of alae in pal-1; sop-1 mutants. No obvious phenotype in a pal-1(+) background. Previously called sop-1(bx103).

V6 produces rays instead of alae in pal-1; sop01 mutants. No obvious phenotype in a pal-1(+) background. Previously called sop-1(bx107).

bxIs13 [egl-5::GFP + lin-15(+)]. Him. egl-5::GFP reporter made from EM#286 (GFP inserted within the last few amino acids of the C-terminus) by integrating bxEx30 in EM588. High nuclear expression of transgene in males (good in seam cells, none in rectal epithelium), weak expression in hermaphrodites. Expression in 2-4 head neurons in males and hermaphrodites. egl-5 gene on reporter does not rescue egl-5(-).

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

Lumpy rays. Temperature sensitive. bx25 previously called ram-4.

xrIs87 [daf-16(alpha)::GFP::daf-16B + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Derived from RB1739 and GR1352.

Temperature sensitive, semidominant mutant that is Unc when moving backward. Dorsal muscular contraction is stronger than that of ventral, resulting in an asymmetric pattern of locomotion in which the animal either forms a dorsal coil or moves in circles with the dorsal side central to the circle. Most likely a gain of function allele of sup-1.

Recessive suppressor of unc-123(jd5). Exhibits a subtle dorsal asymmetric locomotory defect as a homozygote when grown at 25C. Dominant suppressor of unc-17(e245). Most likely unc-123 is allelic with sup-1.

jyIs8 [pals-5p::GFP + myo-2p::mCherry] X. GFP expression induced in the intestine after intracellular infection or proteasomal inhibition. Reference: Bakowski MA, et al. PLoS Pathog. 2014 Jun 19;10(6):e1004200.

jy110 is a CRISPR-engineered deletion removing the entire drh-1 coding sequence. Susceptible to viral infection. Defective in inducing the intracellular pathogen response upon viral infection. Reference: Sowa JN, et al. J Virol. 2020 Jan 6;94(2):e01173-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01173-19. PMID: 31619561.

This strain carries an engineered P55Q mutation in rpl-36A. Maintain at 16-20C. Superficially wild-type, confers resistance to Cycloheximide (CHX). Reference: Zhao Q, et al. Genetics. 2025 Sep 10:iyaf189. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyaf189. PMID: 40929375.

GFP tag inserted into the N-terminus of endogenous dao-5 locus. maintain at 16-20C. Nucleolar GFP expression. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

mKate2 tag inserted into the C-terminus of endogenous nucl-1 locus. Maintain at 16-20C. Nucleolar mKate2 expression. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

wrdSi23 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR:: loxP] I. Maintain at 16-20C. AID*::GFP tag inserted at N terminus of endogenous rpoa-2 locus. mKate2 tag inserted into the C-terminus of endogenous nucl-1 locus. Nucleolar mKate2 expression. This strain can be used for auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of RPOA-2 in somatic tissues. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

ieSi11 [syp-3p::EmGFP::syp-3::syp-3 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Maintain at 16-20C. mKate2 tag inserted into the C-terminus of endogenous nucl-1 locus. Nucleolar mKate2 expression. GFP::SYP-3 expression is readily detected in spermatocytes and oocytes in the germline, and localizes to the interface between paired homologous chromosomes during most of meiotic prophase. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

wrdSi23 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR:: loxP] I. Maintain at 16-20C. AID*::GFP tag inserted at C-terminus of endogenous grwd-1 locus. This strain can be used for auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of GRWD-1 in somatic tissues. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

wrdSi23 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR:: loxP] I. Maintain at 16-20C. AID*::GFP tag inserted at C-terminus of endogenous grwd-1 locus. mKate2 tag inserted into the C-terminus of endogenous nucl-1 locus. Nucleolar mKate2 expression. This strain can be used for auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of GRWD-1 in somatic tissues. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

wrdSi23 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR:: loxP] I. Maintain at 16-20C. AID*::GFP tag inserted at N-terminus of endogenous rpoa-2 locus. This strain can be used for auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of RPOA-2 in somatic tissues in a set-2 mutant background. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

wrdSi23 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR:: loxP] I. ieSi11 [syp-3p::EmGFP::syp-3::syp-3 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Maintain at 16-20C. AID*::GFP tag inserted at N-terminus of endogenous rpoa-2 locus. GFP::SYP-3 expression is readily detected in spermatocytes and oocytes in the germline, and localizes to the interface between paired homologous chromosomes during most of meiotic prophase. mKate2 tag inserted into the C-terminus of endogenous nucl-1 locus. Nucleolar mKate2 expression. This strain can be used for auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of RPOA-2 in somatic tissues. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

wrdSi23 [eft-3p::TIR1:F2A:mTagBFP::tbb2 3' UTR:: loxP] I. Maintain at 16-20C. AID*::GFP tag inserted at the C-terminus of the endogenous rpoa-1 locus. This strain can be used for auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of RPOA-1 and UNC-104 in somatic tissues. Reference: Mejia-Trujillo R, et al. bioRxiv 2025.05.07.652530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.07.652530.

ekEx25 [wrt-2p::CDC-6::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Pick Rollers to maintain the extrachromosomal array.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, Unc and adult steriles (cul-2 homozygotes). cul-2 homozygotes have large germ cells and lay few eggs (slightly temperature sensitive, with more eggs at lower temperatures) that arrest early in development with multiple nuclei.

mom-2(or77) is a recessive, non-conditional maternal-effect embryonic lethal. Weak allele of mom-2/Wnt (splice acceptor mutation in last exon (exon6). 8% of mutant embryos lack gut. Heterozygotes are Unc.

orIs19 [pie-1::GFP::dylt-1 + unc-119(+)]. Superficially wild-type. Reference: O'Rourke SM, et al. PLoS Genet. 2007 Aug;3(8):e128.

ruIs32 [pie-1p::GFP::H2B + unc-119(+)] III. Embryonic lethal at 26C. Maintain at 15C. Temperature-sensitive embryonic lethal following L4 upshift; germline defective following L1 upshift. Reference: Lowry J, et al. G3 (Bethesda). 2015 Aug 26;5(11):2241-55.