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Homozygous viable and fertile. No gross behavioral abnormalities. Reduction of thrashing rate and expulsions during defecation cycle. Changed sensitivity to compounds. Increased sensitivity to aldicarb and levamisole in paralysis tests. Reduced sensitivity during egg laying to levamisole, 5-hydrosxytryptamine, and imipramine. Morphological defects in neurite fasciculation, neurite branching, and synapse formation. 1.5bk deletion at the 5' end of the mRNA.

C29A12.4. Mildly Unc. External left primer: CGGAAGCAAAGAAACCAAAG. External right primer: CTCTTGGCCAGATGTTCGAT. Internal left primer: TTATGCGGGAGATGAAAAGG. Internal right primer: GTTGAGCATTTGCAATCGAA. Internal WT amplicon: 3130 bp. Deletion size: 861 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Reverse Genetics Core Facility at the University of British Columbia, which is part of the international C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

wy778 is a large deletion in the nrx-1 locus that removes the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains shared by all NRX-1 isoforms and deletes the short isoform entirely. Reference: Maro GS, et al. Neuron. 2015 Jun 17;86(6):1420-32.

otIs630 [srg-13::BirA::nrx-1 + inx-18p::AP::nlg-1 + unc-122::streptavidin::2xsfGFP + inx-18p::wCherry + rol-6(su1006)] X. Rollers. Trans-synaptic labeling of PHA to AVG synapses (iBLINC). AVG process is labeled with mCherry. Reference: Oren-Suissa M, et al. Nature. 2016; 533:206-211. PMID: 27144354

dzIs89 [inx-1p::BirA::nrx-1 + gcy-13p::AP::nlg-1 + gcy-13p::tagBFP + unc-122p::stretavadin::tagRFP] X. cdh-5(ot1093) is a CRISPR/Cas9 engineered deletion of full cdh-5 locus. Reference: Majeed M, et al. Sci Adv. 2025 Feb 21;11(8):eads2852. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ads2852. PMID: 39983000.