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Low penetrance tail vab (3-5%). Low penetrance embryonic lethality (3-5%). Low penetrance larval lethality (3%).

Impenetrant Vab - mostly tail; not mapped. Strain throws early larval lethals (ad1025 homozygotes) and Bli Uncs.

Unc. Although hermaphrodites appear WT in other ways, there are some problems with T cell lineages (affecting the phasmids) and tail cell fusions. Variably Dyf. Male tail tip morphogenesis is also defective, resulting in blobby, "leptoderan" tails. Males are infertile due to an inability to properly copulate.

Deficiency covers at least all of cosmid T23G4; right breakpoint may be in cosmid C47A4. Fails to complement tlp-1(bx85). Viable and fertile. Although hermaphrodites appear WT in other ways, there are some problems with T cell lineages (affecting the phasmids) and tail cell fusions. Variably Dyf. Male tail tip morphogenesis is also defective, resulting in blobby, "leptoderan" tails. Males are infertile due to an inability to properly copulate.

Long. Mechanosensory Abnormal. Sometimes touch sensitive in tail.

Medium sized Dpy which curls its tail.

Unc (cannot back). WT male tail.

Maintain under normal conditions. Males have long tail tips.

Maintain under normal conditions. Males have long tail tips.

Temperature sensitive. Missing Ray. Swollen tail and reduced fan. Temperature sensitive lethal at all stages. Wrinkled spicule.

Extensive ray fusion involving all 9 rays. Larva have Vab phenotype with decreasing expressivity in adult. Hermaphrodites have swollen tail and anus. bx80 pka mab-26(bx80).

Although hermaphrodites appear WT in other ways, there are some problems with T cell lineages (affecting the phasmids) and tail cell fusions. Variably Dyf. Male tail tip morphogenesis is also defective, resulting in blobby, "leptoderan" tails. Males are infertile due to an inability to properly copulate. tlp-1 encodes a nuclear protein with a single C2H2-type zinc finger domain and an N-terminal "SPLALLA" domain, similar to that of Sp1 transcription factors of vertebrates. The bx85 mutation involves a truncation of TLP-1 due to a frameshift caused by a 5-bp deletion.

zzIs22 [(pJdC41) (eff-1::GFP) + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. All worms have tail whips.

Deletion of the tyrosine kinase domain of kin-8. Partial Daf-c especially on an old lawn of E. coli. Reduced daf-7 expression in ASI. Dye-filling defective in ASI. Abnormal ASI cell position. 10-20% of animals show withered (Wit) tail phenotype or defects in elongation or migration of posterior gonad. Previously called kin-8.

ksEx29 [daf-7::GFP + lin-44::GFP]. Maintain by picking GFP. daf-7::GFP is dark or invisible. lin-44::GFP is bright in the tail. Grows better at 15C.

Larger body size, longer lifespan, egg-laying defect, male tail abnormal.

Larger body size, longer lifespan, egg-laying defect, male tail abnormal.

Larger body size, longer lifespan, egg-laying defect, male tail abnormal.

xnIs449 [lin-26::lifeAct::GFP + unc-119(+)]. LifeAct-GFP expressed in epidermal cells of embryos. In adults, expression is also observed in pharynx and some cells in the tail. Reference: Zilberman, Y., J. Abrams, D.C. Anderson, and J. Nance. 2017. Cdc42 regulates junctional actin but not cell polarization in the Caenorhabditis elegans epidermis. J Cell Biol 216: 3729-3744.

Unc. Slightly Dpy. Tail whip knobbed at all stages except adult male (adult male tail tip slightly swollen). Variably Egl.

Dpy. Unc. Tail whip knobbed at all stages except adult male (adult male tail tip slightly swollen).

Unc. Roller. Tail whip knobbed at all stages except adult male (adult male tail tip slightly swollen).

Temperature sensitive. Maintain at 15C. pha-1(e2123) is embryonic lethal at 25C. Hermaphrodites have an abnormal tail: sometimes twisted, tail whip never formed, often bobbed; sometimes uncoordinated with bent tail. Adult male tail deformed also.

rtIs29 [acr-5p::YC2.60 + pha-1(+)] expresses yellow cameleon YC2.60 in all VB and DB motoneurons and some head and tail neurons. Maintain at 25C to select for the presence of the array. Haspel G, et al. (2010) J. Neurosci. 30:11151-6.

rtIs11 [osm-10p::GFP + osm-10p::HtnQ150 + dpy-20(+)]. osm-10 promoter drives expression of both GFP and Htn-Q150 strongly in ASH and more weakly in other neurons of the head and tail. pqe-1(rt13) accelerates Htn-Q150 induced toxicity resulting in ASH neuron cell death predominantly during larval stages. Hence, many adult animals will lack overt GFP expression in ASH neurons. rtEx377 in the original HA759 was selected against leaving only rtIs11 in the strain available at the CGC.

Tail abnormal. Defects in asymmetric T cell division causes Psa (phasmid socket absent) phenotype.

osEx397 [cwn-1p::cwn-1::Venus + unc-76(+)]. Pick nonUnc to maintain. Transgene is expressed in tail region. Reference: Yamamoto et al. PLoS Genet. 2011 Oct;7(10):e1002308.

Healthy. Abnormal morphology of the tail (only at Nomarski level). Defects in asymmetric T cell division causes Psa (phasmid socket absent).

lpIs32 [ftt-2::gfp + rol-6]. Rollers. FTT-2::GFP is expressed strongly in the pharynx, and can be observed in the neurons in the head, body and tail, and also weakly expressed in the intestine. Reference: Wang Y, et al. Mech Ageing Dev. 2006 Sep;127(9):741-7. PMID: 16860373.

bpIs131 [sepa-1p::sepa-1::GFP + unc-76(+)]. Him. SEPA-1::GFP aggregates form in a temporal pattern. Diffuse SEPA-1::GFP is detectible in most cells at the comma stage and greatly diminished by the 2-fold stage. After hatching, cytoplasmic SEPA-1::GFP aggregates were found in a few unidentified cells in the head and tail regions and also in the intestine, especially in the anterior and posterior pairs of intestine cells. Reference: Tian Y, et al. Cell. 2010 Jun 11;141(6):1042-55.

vxSi808 [rab-3p::APP::mCherry::unc-54 3'UTR] X. vxIs591 [tph-1p::GFP::unc-54 3'UTR]. Single-copy insertion of human APP transgene tagged with mCherry expressed throughout the nervous system, visible along ventral nerve cord, head, tail, and other neurons. GFP expression in all serotonergic neurons. References: Yi B, et al. 2017 J Neurochem 140(4): 561-575. PMID: 27926996. Mondal et al. 2018 ACS Chem Neurosci. DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00428 PMID: 29426225

Slow-growing wild-type, Him. Segregates WT, DpyUnc, WT males and dead eggs (hDf8 homozygotes). Heterozygotes also exhibit low-penetrance vulval blips; these may be more pronounced, present at higher frequency and accompanied at times by tail blips upon recovery from starvation. hDf8 dominantly suppresses recombination from around unc-13 at least to dpy-5, and possibly to the left end of chromosome I. Maintain by picking WT and checking for correct segregation of progeny. This strain was generated by the Genetic Toolkit project, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use: The Genetic Toolkit is funded by the NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) (USA) to Ann M. Rose, David L. Baillie, and Donald L. Riddle. Report all experimental results to Ann Rose.

Abnormal T cell lineages. Leptoderan male tail. Phasmid dye fill defective (due to T cell lineage defect).

lqEx631 [tiam-1::CFP + str-1::GFP]. GFP expression in AWB amphid neurons. CFP neural expression in the head and tail, the ventral cord commissural motorneurons, the mechanosensory neurons (ALMs, PLMs, AVM, PVM) and the CAN, PDE, and PVD neurons. Reference: Demarco RS, et al. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(4):e1002665.

ayIs9 [egl-17p::GFP + dpy-20(+)]. Reference: Tamayo JV, et al. BMC Genomics. 2013 May 4;14:304. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-304. PMID: 23642123. lqIs221 is a Pegl-17::mab-5::gfp transgene. ayIs9 is a Pegl-17::gfp transgene. AQR migration defects. AQR in the tail in the normal position of PQR.

lqIs221 [egl-17p::mab-5::GFP + gcy-32p::CFP]. AQR migration defects. AQR in the tail in the normal position of PQR. CFP expression in AQR, PQR and URXL/R. Reference: Tamayo JV, et al. BMC Genomics. 2013 May 4;14:304. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-304. PMID: 23642123.

N-terminally tagged GFP::CHE-12. Cilia are slightly shorter than WT. GFP fluorescence appears in multiple sensory cilia in the head and phasmid neuron cilia in the tail. Reference: Das A, et al. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Nov 15;26(23):4248-64.

C-terminally tagged CHE-12::GFP. Cilia are slightly shorter than WT. GFP fluorescence appears in multiple sensory cilia in the head and phasmid neuron cilia in the tail. Reference: Das A, et al. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Nov 15;26(23):4248-64.

Small. Male tail ray fusions between rays 4 and 5, 6 and 7, 8 and 9. Crumpled spicules. Semidominant with respect to body size.

Small. Male tail abnormal: ray fusions between rays 4 and 5, 6 and 7, 8 and 9. Crumpled spicules. Recessive. Null.

wzIs30 [egl-6::ChR2-YFP + lin-15(+)] IV. Strain carries integrated transgene wzIs30 that expresses YFP-tagged channelrhodopsin under the egl-6 promoter in HSN and some head and tail neurons. Strain is in lite-1(ce314) and lin-15(n765ts) background. The transgene contains a rescue for lin-15 as a marker. Reference: Emtage L, et al. J Neurosci. 2012 Nov 14;32(46):16285-95.

vsIs97 [tph-1p::DsRed2 + lin-15(+)]. DsRed2 expression in HSN, NSM, and associated processes. Additional background expression in tail and a pair of head neurons. NOTE: tph-1p::DsRed2 expression pattern is different than GFP expression driven by the same promoter [Koelle Lab].

vsIs13 [lin-11::pes-10::GFP + lin-15(+)]. GFP expression in six VC neurons and posterior intestine. vsIs97 [tph-1p::DsRed2 + lin-15(+)]. DsRed2 expression in HSN, NSM, and associated processes. Additional background expression in tail and a pair of head neurons. NOTE: tph-1p::DsRed2 expression pattern is different than GFP expression driven by the same promoter [Koelle Lab]. vsIs100 [myo-3p::CFP + lin-15(+)]. CFP expression in VMs. Additional background expression seen as punctate nucleolar fluorescence along the ventral side of the worm (also present in wild-type).

kuIs36 [egl-26::GFP + unc-119(+)] II. Transcriptional fusion of GFP to egl-26 gene. Nuclear localized. Embryonic expression. Expressed in somatic gonad (uterus and spermatheca) and vulva in vulE and vulB in L4. Spermatheca expression persists into adulthood. Expressed in pharyngeal-intestinal junction cells and in tail.

keyIs21 [egl-6p::HisCl::unc-54 3' UTR + egl-6p::mCherry::unc-54 3' UTR + lin-15(+)]. Animals express HisCl and mCherry in the HSN neurons, two head sheath glia, two tail neurons, and 1-2 head neurons. Expression is bright in the head and tail. Animals are slightly egg-laying defective, ~10% of animals are Egl. Reference: Ravi B, et al. J. Neuroscience. 38 (28), 6283-6298.

Animals move sluggishly but are able to back, despite n491. lb125 also partially suppresses the tail touch insensitive phenotype of u38 in cold-sensitive fashion: at 25C -> 0%; at 20C -> 5%; at 15C -> 30%.

Dorsal protrusions on head and tail. Head frequently twisted. 30% of embryos die. 86% of larvae die. 44% of adult survivors show a mutant phenotype. Full zygotic and maternal rescue.

mirIs42 [F49H12.4p::CRE + myo-2p::mCherry]. Superficially wild-type. Primarily PVD-specific CRE driver; CRE activity was observed predominantly in PVD neurons with some additional recombination in a few tail neurons and possibly FLP neuron. Reference: Das R, et al. Sci Adv. 2021 Sep 17;7(38):eabg4617. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg4617. PMID: 34533987

Slightly Unc. Long irregularly shaped tail. May be Egl. Many hermaphrodites (50%) have single small protrusion posterior to vulva, some gonadal abnormality and sterility.

Backcrossed tph-1(mg280) allele. cam-1 mutation was removed by crossing left and right of tph-1(mg280) using bli-2 and unc-4. Strain does not have withered tail defect and moves well.