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0006. Rhabditella axei. Male/Female strain. Isolated by W. Sudhaus on July 29, 1979 from a compost heap in Esmoulieres, France. Grown easily on OP50 at 16-25C. See WBG 12(5) 14.

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.

Robin Giblin-Davis MUST be cited in any publication. Isolated by R. Giblin-Davis from the palm weevil Rhynchphorus cruentatus (Curculionidae) in Broward County, Florida. Male/Female strain. See WBG 12(5) 14.

Formerly known as Rhabditis axei. Isolated by Elie S. Dolgin in 2006 from agricultural soil at Naivasha, Kenya (0º50'S 36º22'E); isolate number NV-SH-2. First frozen by Fitch laboratory 9/5/2006. Gonochoristic. Grows well on NGM plates and OP50 at 20-25C. Freezes easily with C. elegans protocols with 70% viability. DF5097 was verified to be R. axei by intercrossing it with DF5006 and observing that their resulting F1 and F2 hybrid offspring were healthy and fertile. At 33C, DF5097 can live up to three days, although they developmentally arrest as late larvae or young adults, fail to produce offspring, and eventually die; in contrast, DF5006 either dies or arrests as first-stage (L1) larvae. Returning DF5097 to 20C from 33C rescues them from developmental arrest and death, and allows them to become fertile adults; in contrast, when DF5006 L1 larvae are returned to 20C, they sometimes grow to later stage larvae, but never grow to fertile adults. Thus, DF5097 shows clearly superior resistance to heat over DF5006; it shows somewhat greater fertility than DF5098 (which also withstands 33C) after being returned to 20C.

Formerly known as Rhabditis axei. Isolated by Elie S. Dolgin in 2006 from fungus at Limuru, Kenya (1º05'S 36º39'E); isolate number LI-OM-B-1&4. First frozen by Fitch laboratory 9/5/2006. Gonochoristic. Grows well on NGM plates and OP50 at 20-25C. Freezes easily with C. elegans protocols with >20% viability. DF5098 was verified to be R. axei by intercrossing it with DF5006 and observing that their resulting F1 and F2 hybrid offspring were healthy and fertile. At 33C, DF5098 can live for up to three days, although they developmentally arrest as late larvae or young adults, fail to produce offspring, and eventually die; in contrast, DF5006 either dies or arrests as first-stage (L1) larvae. Returning DF5098 to 20C from 33C rescues them from developmental arrest and death, and allows them to become fertile adults; in contrast, when DF5006 L1 larvae are returned to 20C, they sometimes grow to later larvae, but never grow to fertile adults. Thus, DF5098 shows clearly superior resistance to heat over DF5006; it shows somewhat lower fertility than DF5097 (which also withstands 33C) after being returned to 20C.

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.

tnEx195 [inx-8(+) + inx-9(+) + sur-5::GFP]. Pick GFP+ animals to maintain. Animals carrying tnEx195 are wild-type; animals that have lost the array are sterile and produce few germ cells. Reference: Starich TA, Hall DH, Greenstein D. Genetics. 2014 Nov;198(3):1127-53.

tnEx212 [pod-2(+) + sur-5::GFP]. Pick GFP+ animals to maintain. sur-5::gfp(+) animals are wild type and segregate GFP(+) wild-type animals and GFP(-) pod-2(tn1691) dead embryos. tn1691 deletes ~15 kb within pod-2, including most of Exon 2 through to and including the stop codon (but not the polyA site). Reference: Starich TA, et al. eLife 2020;9:e58619 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.58619 PMID: 32735213

Heterozygotes are WT, GFP+ in the pharynx and segregate WT (GFP+ in the pharynx), dead eggs (homozygotes for hT2) and hmgr-1(tm4386) homozygotes, which die as young larvae (L1/L2). Maintain by picking GFP+ worms and checking for correct segregation, since the hT2 balancer is lost at low frequencies. hmgr-1(tm4386) can be maintained as homozygous fertile hermaphrodites on 20 mM mevalonolactone. Reference: P. Ranji, M. Rauthan, C. Pitot and M. Pilon, 2014. PloS ONE 9(6): e100033.

Temperature sensitive. Embryonic lethal at 25C (tight); arrests at first cleavage. Gondadogenesis defective. Will grow at 15C or 20C. Maternal effect (m,m).

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. Egg lethal. Abnormal first cleavage. Maternal effect (m,n).

Temperature sensitive. Egg lethal. Abnormal first cleavage. Strict maternal effect (m,m). Will grow at 20C.

Temperature sensitive. Egg lethal. Abnormal first cleavage giving small P1 blastomere. Mutant is ts in late L4-early adult. Partial maternal (m,n).

Interfertile with N2. Survives freezing lin liquid nitrogen. Temperature sensitive. Brood size like N2. Generation time like N2. Spontaneous males. Reference WBG 10(2) 140-141. Isolated in El Prieto Canyon, CA. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate (Tc1 pattern HCC). For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

C. elegans wild isolate. Reference: Andersen EC, et al. Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

C. elegans wild isolate. Reference: Andersen EC, et al. Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

C. elegans wild isolate. Reference: Andersen EC, et al. Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 29;44(3):285-90. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

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.

The unc-112(r367); raDf4/+ hermaphrodites move better than unc-112(r367); +/+ animals (but not as well as WT). raDf4 homozygotes arrest as L2 larvae. raDf4 deletes dim-1.

The unc-112(r367); raDf6/+ hermaphrodites move better than unc-112(r367); +/+ animals (but not as well as WT). raDf6 homozygotes arrest during embryogenesis. raDf6 deletes dim-1.

raDf7 suppresses the paralyzed phenotype of unc-112(r367) because the deficiency deletes the dim-1 gene. Reduction or loss of the dim-1 gene product suppresses the unc-112(r367) phenotype. In this strain: Animals homozygous for raDf7 arrest as L1 or L2 larvae; Animals without raDf7 are paralyzed as adults; Animals heterozygous for raDf7 move reasonably well.

The unc-112(r367); raDf9/+ hermaphrodites move better than unc-112(r367); +/+ animals (but not as well as WT). raDf9 homozygotes arrest as L1 or L2 larvae. raDf9 deletes dim-1.

The unc-112(r367); raDf10/+ hermaphrodites move better than unc-112(r367); +/+ animals (but not as well as WT). raDf10 homozygotes arrest as L1 or L2 larvae. raDf10 deletes dim-1.

The unc-112(r367); raDf11/+ hermaphrodites move better than unc-112(r367); +/+ animals (but not as well as WT). raDf11 homozygotes arrest as L1 or L2 larvae. raDf11 deletes dim-1.

The unc-112(r367); raDf12/+ hermaphrodites move better than unc-112(r367); +/+ animals (but not as well as WT). raDf12 homozygotes arrest as L1 or L2 larvae. raDf12 deletes dim-1.

Animals heterozygous for mnDp33 are WT and segregate WT and lethals. Animals which have lost mnDp33 arrest as two fold L1 larvae. Animals which are homozygous for mnDp33 are also larval lethal (L1-L2).

For PCR STS mapping. Differs from RW7000 in two Tc1 sites. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DP subclone of RW7000. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

edIs6 [unc-119::GFP + rol-6(su1006)] IV. Strong Roller phenotype. Hets are not Rollers (despite the presence of the supposedly dominant su1006 mutation in the array), so heterozygous males mate well. edIs6 is the integration of an array carrying pDP#MMUGF12 and pRF4. pDP#MMUGD12 ia an unc-119::GFP fusion that encodes 101 aa of UNC-119 and was made from the Fire lab vector pPD95.77. pRF4 is the rol-6(su1006) plasmid that gives a Rol phenotype. This strain allows the nervous system to be visualized by GFP fluorescence. GFP expression starts in the early embryo and continues through adulthood in most, if not all, of the nervous system. The expression of a similar lacZ fusion (but carrying a nuclear localizing signal) is described in Genetics 141: 977-988 1995.

Made from LV15. st601 is a non-conditional two-fold arrest lethal.

Superficially wild-type. Endogenously-tagged UNC-11::GFP is expressed in most, if not all, neurons, epithelial cells and coelomocytes, and should be visible in the nerve ring through a dissecting scope..

CRISPR/Cas9 insertion of GFP into the N-terminus of cki-1; seems to cause cki-1 gain-of-function phenotype (early cell cycle exit for some post-embryonic blast cells). Reference: Adikes RC, et al. "Visualizing the metazoan proliferation-terminal differentiation decision in vivo." bioRxiv 2019.12.18.881888

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

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, dead eggs and Twitchers that arrest as larvae. Maintain by picking WT. Hets twitch in 1% nicotine.

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).

Reference WBG 10(2) 104-141 and 11(5) 60. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DR subclone of Cl2a (Tc1 pattern II). For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Reference WBG 10(2) 140-141. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DR subclone of GA-1 (Tc1 pattern I). For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Reference WBG 10(2) 140-141. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DR subclone of GA-1 (Tc1 pattern I). For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Reference WBG 10(2) 140-141. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DR subclone of GA-1 (Tc1 pattern I). For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

Reference WBG 10(2) 140-141 and 11(5) 60. Caenorhabditis elegans wild isolate. DR subclone of PA-1. For whole-genome sequence-verified wild strains, please request from the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (www.caendr.org).

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

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.

This strain forms 20% dauers at 15C. At 25C there occurs about 25% embryonic arrest and about 75% L1 arrest. The e979 mutation results in an amino acid substitution, C146Y, in the ligand-binding domain of the DAF-2 receptor. [CGC received new stock of DR1942 September 2002. Previous stock was probably m41 and not e979.] [June 2004: Patrice Albert has confirmed the mutation in this stock: Repeat of sequencing for CGC collection strain DR1942 [daf-2(e979)] is complete. The strain does carry a C146Y mutation (coding strand TGC to TAC) [Mutation position is at 143, not 146, based on the amino acid sequence shown in Wormbase for daf-2. It's the C in partial sequence EKRCGPI of Exon 5.].]

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, DpyUnc [mIn1(mc6) homozygotes], and two-fold arrest Let Rol progeny. Well balanced. Male stock. Cross WT males to WT hermaphrodites and check for correct segregation of progeny.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, DpyRol mIn1 homozygotes and 2-fold arrest Unc larvae. Male stock; mate WT males and WT hermaphrodites to maintain.

Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Dpy and dauers. Dauers are lethal and SDS-sensitive. NOTE: WT recombinants that have lost dpy-13 can quickly overtake a population.

Temperature sensitive. Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in mid-larval stages at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in L1 stage at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in L1 stage at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.

Sensitive to alpha-amanitin. Heterozygotes are semi-Dpy and segregate semi-Dpy, Vul, dead embryos, and Dpy. Dpy progeny arrest in L1 stage at >20C. Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.Reference: Bowman EA, Riddle DR, Kelly WG. G3 November 2011 1:411-416.