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Unc. Constitutive dauer formation (Daf-c) at 25C.

Animals which carry ctDp6 are WT. Animals which have lost ctDp6 are DpyUnc Males. Maintain by picking WT.

Animals with the duplication are Unc. Animals that have lost the duplication are DpyUncMel. mei-2 is non-conditional recessive maternal effect lethal.

Animals which carry ctDp2 are WT. Animals which have lost ctDp2 are Dpy Males. Maintain by picking WT.

Animals with the duplication are WT. Animals without the duplication are Nob (NO Back end; 100% lethal). Pick wild-type to maintain; typically segregates about 50% wild type progeny and 50% Nob larvae.

Wild type hermaphrodites and males which produce WT, Dpy, Unc and DpyUnc progeny due to mating or loss of the duplication. Pick WT hermaphrodites and males to maintain.

Animals with the duplication are WT. Animals without the duplication are Nob (NO Back end; 100% lethal). Pick wild-type to maintain. The Dpy and Unc phenotypes are not visible in the Nob background. ct223 is recessive.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, DpySteriles and dead eggs. Pick wild-type heterozygotes to maintain. ct281 homozygotes show Nob phenotype: approximately 80% of homozygous embryos arrest at about the time of hatching with fairly normal anterior development but a severely deformed posterior with a variable knob-like shape; approximately 20% fail to enclose and do not hatch. ct281 is a 4.7kb deletion removing intron 5, exon 6, and the 3'UTR of the pal-1 gene. Reference: Edgar LG, et al. Dev Biol. 2001 Jan 1;229(1):71-88.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, DpySteriles and dead eggs. Pick wild-type heterozygotes to maintain. ct224 homozygotes show Nob phenotype: approximately 80% of homozygous embryos arrest at about the time of hatching with fairly normal anterior development but a severely deformed posterior with a variable knob-like shape; approximately 20% fail to enclose and do not hatch. ct224 is a 4.2kb deletion removing exon 1 through exon 6 of the pal-1 gene. Reference: Edgar LG, et al. Dev Biol. 2001 Jan 1;229(1):71-88.

Animals with the duplication are WT. Animals without the duplication are Nob (NO Back end; 100% lethal). Pick wild-type to maintain; segregates wild type progeny, Nob larvae, and occasional dead eggs. ct351 is recessive.

Temperature-sensitve. Maintain at 15C. Slight Maternal Effect Lethal (Mel) at 15C, more pronounced at 20C. Highly penetrant Mel at 25C and a fraction of the survivors have reversed left-right organs.

C. briggsae strain. Hermaphrodites are variably self-sterile, which is overcome by mating to males of the same genotype. From BC1991.

ctIs33 [pal-1::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, DpySteriles and dead eggs. Pick wild-type heterozygotes to maintain. ct224 homozygotes show Nob phenotype: approximately 80% of homozygous embryos arrest at about the time of hatching with fairly normal anterior development but a severely deformed posterior with a variable knob-like shape; approximately 20% fail to enclose and do not hatch. ct224 is a 4.2kb deletion removing exon 1 through exon 6 of the pal-1 gene. ctIs33 carries a non-rescuing pal-1::GFP fusion containing ~7kb 5' of the SL1 splice site through part of exon 5 fused to GFP. GFP expression is primarily embryonic and limited to a few cells; not visible except at high magnification. Reference: Edgar LG, et al. Dev Biol. 2001 Jan 1;229(1):71-88.

ctIs39 [hbl-1p::GFP::NLS::hbl-1 3'UTR + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Reporter encodes the first 133 amino acids of HBL-1 followed by GFP with SV40 NLS and 1.4 kb of hbl-1 3' UTR. Reference: Fay DS, et al. Dev Biol. 1999 Jan 15;205(2):240-53.

ctIs40 [dbl-1(+) + sur-5::GFP]. Lon. dbl-1 over-expressing line from injection of constructs ZC421 and pTG98.

Maintain at 15C. Temperature-sensitive maternal effect, gastrulation defective. 100% of embryos arrest without gastrulating at 25C.

Animals carrying the duplication are wild-type. Animals which have lost yDp1 are Unc and give only dead eggs(57%) or dead larvae(43%).

svDp1 [sur-5::GFP] (III;f). svDp1 was derived by insertion of a sur-5::GFP marker into sDp3(III;f). Pick GFP+ wild-type to maintain. svDp1 rescues ct224. ct224 homozygotes (lacking GFP expression) show Nob phenotype: approximately 80% of homozygous embryos arrest at about the time of hatching with fairly normal anterior development but a severely deformed posterior with a variable knob-like shape; approximately 20% fail to enclose and do not hatch. The duplication is lost in about 30-40% of embryos. Reference: Edgar LG, et al. Dev Biol. 2001 Jan 1;229(1):71-88.

May have unc-4(e120) mutation in background. svDp1 balances from pal-1 through unc-36 on III. svDp1 made by fusing array containing [unc-4(+) + sur-5::GFP] to sDp3(III;f).

Maintain at 15C. Vulvaless. Temperature-sensitive constitutive dauer (Daf-c) at 25C.

Egl. Constitutive dauer (Daf-c) at 25C.

Deficient in synthesis of ether-linked lipids. Contains high content of saturated fatty acids. Reference: Shi X, et al. J Lipid Res. 2016 Feb;57(2):265-75.

Deficient in synthesis of ether-linked lipids. Contains high content of saturated fatty acids. Reference: Shi X, et al. J Lipid Res. 2016 Feb;57(2):265-75.

Deficient in synthesis of ether-linked lipids. Contains high content of saturated fatty acids. Reference: Shi X, et al. J Lipid Res. 2016 Feb;57(2):265-75.

zdIs5 [mec-4p::GFP + lin-15(+)] I. mec-4::GFP is expressed in touch neurons. Null allele of scrm-1: 2501 bp deletion and 7 bp insertion (CACACAT) removes the entire scrm-1 coding sequence (position 11688933 - 11691433 of chromosome I).

Animals display reduced body bends and thrash rates, slow growth, and fragmented mitochondria. cjn20 is a 2629 bp deletion removing nucleotides 25-2654 of the fzo-1 locus. Originally published as cjn020. Reference: Byrne JJ, et al. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2019 May;76(10):1967-1985. (PMID 30840087)

vtIs7 [dat-1p::GFP]. Integrated reporter with bright GFP observable in all dopaminergic neurons and processes. No behavioral changes have been noted in relation to transgene integration. DA neuron degeneration is evident with easily detectible loss of GFP expression (e.g. Hardaway et al, J. Neurosci, 2015). Reference: Nass, R., et al. (2002). "Neurotoxin-induced degeneration of dopamine neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99(5): 3264-3269.

This strain is tolerant to acute treatment of ethanol. The severity and incidence of stress-induced tremors are greater than in wild-type. Reference: Jee C, et al. Genes Brain Behav. 2013 Mar;12(2):250-62.

Head-bending phenotype. Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Kim, H et al. (2004) Nature 430:891-6.

egIs1 [dat-1p::GFP]; reportedly maps to LG IV. Bright GFP observable in dopamine neuronal soma and processes. For some reason this strain is resistant to neurotoxic effects of 6-OHDA compared to an independent strain BY200 (Nass et al., 2002). Or maybe BY200 is more sensitive to 6-OHDA due to its co-injection marker gene rol-6?

Dopamine receptor knockout. [NOTE: (3/3/2025) ok295 was previously described as an allele of dop-3/T14E8.4, but is actually an allele of aaim-1/T14E8.4.1 according to current gene models.] Derived by out-crossing parental strain RB563. Outer Left Sequence: ttgctccagcggttctagtt. Outer Right Sequence: gactgtctaagcgaccagcc. Inner Left Sequence: ttgtttgcgggtttgataca. Inner Right Sequence: agaagcacgcggtagttgat. Inner Primer PCR Length: 3254. Estimated Deletion Size: about 1000 bp.

Heterozygotes are Unc and segregate Uncs, dead eggs, and non-Uncs (dsb-1 homozygotes), which produce 99% inviable embryos due to meiotic nondisjunction. Pick Unc to maintain and check for correct segregation of progeny. we11 is a TCA to TAA nonsense mutation in the dsb-1 coding sequence that introduces a premature stop after leucine 96. Reference: Stamper EL, et al. PLoS Genet. 2013;9(8):e1003679.

ieEx21 [smu-2p::AID*::smu-2::GFP::smu-2 3'UTR + rol-6(su1006)]. Rollers. Pick Rollers to maintain array. Rollers carry a transgene expressing AID*- and GFP- tagged SMU-2 in both the soma and the germ line. This strain can be combined with different TIR1 strains to test auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of nuclear protein in various tissues. Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi58 [eft-3p::AID*::GFP::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome IV (oxTi177) expressing AID*::GFP in the soma. This strain can be combined with different TIR1 strains to test auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of protein in somatic tissue. Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi59 [eft-3p::AID*::GFP::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] III. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome III (oxTi444) expressing AID*::GFP at low levels in the soma. This strain can be combined with different TIR1 strains to test auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of protein in somatic tissue. Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

An AID*::GFP tag was inserted at the 3' end of the endogenous dhc-1 coding sequence via CRISPR/Cas9. This strain can be combined with different TIR1 strains to examine spatial and temporal requirements for dynein, and to serve as a control strain for auxin-inducible degradation (AID). Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi57 [eft-3p::TIR1::mRuby::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome II (oxTi179) expressing modified Arabidopsis thaliana TIR1 tagged with mRuby in the soma. An AID*::GFP tag was inserted at the 3' end of the endogenous dhc-1 coding sequence via CRISPR/Cas9. This strain can be used to examine spatial and temporal requirements for dynein in somatic tissue, and to serve as a control strain for auxin-inducible degradation (AID). Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi60 [myo-2p::TIR1::mRuby::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome II (oxTi179) expressing modified Arabidopsis thaliana TIR1 tagged with mRuby in pharyngeal muscle. An AID*::GFP tag was inserted at the 3' end of the endogenous dhc-1 coding sequence via CRISPR/Cas9. This strain can be used to examine spatial and temporal requirements for dynein in pharyngeal muscle, and to serve as a control strain for auxin-inducible degradation (AID). Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi61 [ges-1p::TIR1::mRuby::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. An AID*::GFP tag was inserted at the 3' end of the endogenous dhc-1 coding sequence via CRISPR/Cas9. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome II (oxTi179) expressing modified Arabidopsis thaliana TIR1 tagged with mRuby in the intestine. This strain can be used to examine spatial and temporal requirements for dynein in the intestine, and to serve as a control strain for auxin-inducible degradation (AID). Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi38 [sun-1p::TIR1::mRuby::sun-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome IV (cxTi10882) expressing modified Arabidopsis thaliana TIR1 tagged with mRuby in germ line and early embryos. An AID*::GFP tag was inserted at the 3' end of the endogenous dhc-1 coding sequence via CRISPR/Cas9. This strain can be used to examine spatial and temporal requirements for dynein in the germ line and early embryos, and to serve as a control strain for auxin-inducible degradation (AID). Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

ieSi38 [sun-1p::TIR1::mRuby::sun-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. AID* and GFP tag inserted into endogenous air-2 gene locus by CRISPR/Cas9 engineering allows auxin-inducible degradation (AID) of AIR-2 in germ line and early embryos. Reference: Divekar NS, et al. PLoS Genet. 2021 May 20;17(5):e1009567. PMID: 34014923

ieSi11 [syp-3p::EmeraldGFP::syp-3::syp-3 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. ieSi11 was inserted into ttTi5605 II using MosSCI. Expression of GFP::SYP-3 largely complements syp-3(ok758), but some meiotic nondisjunction is detected above the N2 background (85% embryonic viability; ~1% male self-progeny;). 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: Rog O, Dernburg AF. Cell Rep. 2015 Mar 10. pii: S2211-1247(15)00178-3.

ieSi21 [sun-1p::sun-1::mRuby::sun-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. ieSi21 was inserted into cxTi10882 IV using MosSCI. Expression of the transgenic SUN-1::mRuby fusion protein complements the sun-1 deletion allele. SUN-1::mRuby is expressed throughout the germline and in the early embryo, where it localizes to nuclear envelope and associates with chromosome pairing centers during early meiotic prophase. Reference: Rog O, Dernburg AF. Cell Rep. 2015 Mar 10. pii: S2211-1247(15)00178-3.

ieSi6 [htp-3p::htp-3::GFP + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Maintain at 20C. Although silencing of the transgene has not observed, it may be helpful to maintain it over htp-3(tm3655) to continually select for expression. unc-119(ed3) might not be homozygous in this strain. Reference: Kim et al. Dev Cell. 2015 Oct 26;35(2):247-61.

ieSi21 [sun-1::mRuby] IV. Homozygous animals developed normally, their self-progeny showed reduced viability, and many survivors were males (8%).

ieSi64 [gld-1p::TIR1::mRuby::gld-1 3' UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Single copy transgene inserted into chromosome II (oxTi179) expressing a modified Arabidopsis thaliana TIR1 tagged with mRuby in the germ line and early embryos. Comparing to CA1472, this strain expresses a higher level of TIR1 and can induce a faster degradation of AID-tagged proteins in the germ line and early embryos. Reference: Zhang L, et al. Development. 2015 Nov 9. pii: dev.129635.

40% XO self progeny. Recessive.

37% XO self progeny. Recessive.

mIs11 [myo-2p::GFP + pes-10p::GFP + F22B7.9::GFP]. Pick WT with dim GFP+ in pharynx to maintain. mIs11 homozygotes will quickly overtake the population if not selected against. GFP expression in 4-cell embryos, pharyngeal muscle and gut. Heterozygotes are WT with dim GFP signal in the pharynx. mIs11 homozygotes are WT with bright GFP in the pharynx. rad-51(lg8701) homozygotes are non-GFP and throw dead eggs.