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uthEx633 [myo-3p::GFP]. Maintain at 15C; sterile at 25C. Pick animals with GFP expression in body wall muscle to maintain. Reference: Vilchez D, et al. Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):263-8.

uthEx557 [sur-5p::rpn-6 + myo-3p::GFP]. Maintain at 15C; sterile at 25C. Pick animals with GFP expression in body wall muscle to maintain. Reference: Vilchez D, et al. Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):263-8.

Temperature sensitive. Recessive. Feminization.

Severely Uncoordinated; Him; feminized at temperatures above 20C. Grow at 15C. Used for generating patroclinous WT males, by exploiting non-disjunction caused by him-8, and dominant sex-linked unc-1.

WT hermaphrodite if grown at 15-20C. WT females if grown at 25C. When crossed, these females yield only XX viable hermaphrodite progeny, all XO progeny are dead.

Temperature-sensitive: Maintain at 15C. Stable, temperature-sensitive tetraploid strain: fertile 4A;3X hermaphrodites and 4A;2X males at 15C; fertile 4A;3X females and feminized sterile 4A;2X males at 25C. Reference: Hodgkin (2002) PMID: 12399387.

Long lifespan. Maintain at 15C. Worms develop slowly at 20C, and are sterile at 25C. Reference: Garigan D, et al. Genetics. 2002 Jul;161(3):1101-12.

Grow at 15C. Sterile at 25C.

Heterozygotes are WT, GFP+ in the pharynx and segregate WT (GFP+ in the pharynx), dead eggs (hT2 homozygotes) and non-GFP gld-1(q93) homozygotes with masculinized germlines. Some heterozygotes will also have a masculinized germline. Maintain by picking GFP worms and checking for correct segregation, since the hT2 balancer is lost at low frequencies. gld-1(q93) was isolated as a dominant suppressor of fem-1(hc17).

Temperature-sensitive. Maintain at 15C. Female worms at 20C; hermaphrodites at 15C. GFP tag inserted at the N-terminus of the endogenous mei-1 locus. Reference: Bhatia P, et al. Life Sci Alliance. 2025 May 29;8(8):e202503387. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202503387. PMID: 40441896.

Maintain at 15C. Pick fertile GFP+ hermaphrodites to maintain. Segregates WT GFP+ heterozygotes, non-glowing sterile gld-1 homozygotes, very rare GFP+ homozygous hT2, and dead eggs. fem-1 is temperature sensitive; causes feminization. gld-1 homozygotes form germline tumors. Reference: Biedermann et al., Dev Cell 17, 355-364 (2009).