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Break points: In(kvs-5 dmd-9) IV. Covered region (Mb) 2.5 (0.7..3.3) [NOTE: the genotype originally listed for this strain in Table 2 of Dejima, et al. was incorrect.] Reference: Dejima K, et al. Cell Rep. 2018 Jan 2;22(1):232-241.

Serotonin- and dopamine-deficient, tetrahydrobiopterin-deficient, general chemical hypersensitivity, cuticle fragility (rapid disintegration in alkaline bleach), male turning defective (phenotypes appear identical to cat-4 null mutants). Derived by outcrossing FX1984 five times to N2. Reference: Loer CM, et al. Genetics. 2015 May;200(1):237-53.

vsIs164 [unc-103p(E)::GCaMP5 + unc-103p(E)::mCherry + lin-15(+)] X. Integrated transgene using unc-103e promoter to drive GCaMP5 and mCherry expression in vulval muscles; useful for visualizing and quantitating calcium influx in vulval muscle cells. Reference: Collins K, et al. Elife. 2016 Nov 16;5. pii: e21126. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21126.

vsIs172 [lin-11(enhancer)::pes-10p::GCaMP5 + lin-11(enhancer)::pes-10p::mCherry + lin-15(+)]. Integrated transgene using lin-11 enhancer region fused to the pes-10 basal promoter to drive GCaMP5 and mCherry expression in VC motor neurons; useful for visualizing and quantitating calcium influx in VC motor neurons. Reference: Collins K, et al. Elife. 2016 Nov 16;5. pii: e21126. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21126.

vsIs177 [ocr-2p::GCaMP5::ocr-2 3'UTR + ocr-2p::mCherry::ocr-2 3'UTR + lin-15(+)] X. Integrated transgene using ocr-2 promoter to drive GCaMP5 and mCherry expression in uv1; useful for visualizing and quantitating calcium influx in uv1 cells. Reference: Collins K, et al. Elife. 2016 Nov 16;5. pii: e21126. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21126.

wIs51 [SCMp::GFP + unc-119(+)] V. kuEx194 [elt-1(+) + sur-5p::DsRed]. GFP expression in seam cells. Pick DsRed+ animals to maintain. In a daf-12(WT) background, elt-1(ku491) exhibits some precocious fusion of seamcells and gaps in alae. elt-1(ku491); daf-12(rh61rh411) double mutants have more sever heterochronic phenotypes including seamcell proliferation and bursting vulvae. Reference: Cohen ML, et al. PLoS Genet. 2015 Mar 27;11(3):e1005099.

evEx193 [semala::GFP]. GFP fluorescence in interneurons (AVL), the excretory channel, the distal tip cells (DTC), somatic cells of the gonad, epidermal cells. In adult, expression in the fused seam cell syncitium.

otEx193[C09E7.3(oig-1)::GFP].

Endogenous ser-7 locus tagged with mNeonGreen. Inclusion of the T2A self-cleaving peptide allows mNeonGreen406 to be expressed as a cytosolic protein. Generated in N2 background. Reference: Dag U, et al. bioRxiv 2023.01.15.524132; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.15.524132.

Superficially wild-type. Insertion of GFP and FLAG tags directly before the stop codon of endogenous ceh-87 locus. Verified by sequencing. Reference: Reilly MB, et al. Nature. 2020 Aug;584(7822):595-601. PMID: 32814896.

Endogenous locus tagged with mKate2 using CRISPR/Cas9. Enables visualisation of this secreted AMP in the cuticle upon genetic or physical cuticle damage. Reference: Pujol N & Bringmann H. 2025. microPublication Biology. A knock-in translational reporter for NLP-29 reveals AMP secretion to the apical extracellular matrices following epidermal damage in Caenorhabditis elegans. 10.17912/micropub.biology.001435.

Apparent homozygous lethal or sterile deletion balanced by tmC5. Heterozygotes are wild-type GFP+, and segregate wild-type GFP+, sterile GFP+ gk5611 homozygotes and non-GFP Mec Unc animals (tmC5 homozygotes). Maintain by picking fertile wild-type GFP+ and checking for proper segregation of progeny. Derived from parental strains VC4540 and FX19666. Left flanking sequence: GATAACTGAAATCTGGATAGAGGAATGGTC. Right flanking sequence: CCCAATTGTTGACTGTACATGTGGCAACGC. Please reference Au et al., G3 9(1): 135-144 2019 in any work resulting from use of this mutation.

gaEx192 [sod-3p::mCherry + ucp-4p::ucp2(D. rerio) + unc-119(+)]. Reference: Sagi D & Kim SK. PLoS Genet. 2012 Jun;8(6):e1002780.