staEx1 [T20F7.6p + pha-1(+)]. Empty vector control strain. Maintain at 25 degrees. Superficially wild-type. Reference: Greer EL et al Curr Biol 2007 Oct 9;17(19):1646-56.

hjIs37 [vha-6p::mRFP-PTS1 + Cbr-unc-119(+)]. ldrIs1 [dhs-3p::dhs-3::GFP + unc-76(+)]. mRFP targeted to peroxisomes in intestinal cells. dhs-3::GFP is expressed mainly in intestinal cells and localized to intestinal lipid droplets. Derived by crossing parental strains VS10 and LIU1 and outcrossing six times to ABR lab stock of N2. Reference: Papsdorf K, et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2023 May;25(5):672-684. doi: 10.1038/s41556-023-01136-6. 2023. PMID 37127715.

staEx4 [T20F7.6p(R81Q)::T20F7.6 + pha-1(+)]. Constitutively active T20f7.6 promoter construct (CA3). Maintain at 25 degrees. Superficially wild-type with increased lifespan and stress resistance. Reference: Greer EL et al Curr Biol 2007 Oct 9;17(19):1646-56.

wtfIs145 [rab-3p::his-24::GCaMP6s::unc-54 3'UTR + pha-1(+)]. Pan-neuronal expression of nuclear-localized GCaMP6s. Reference: Sharma AK, et al. Genetics 2024 May 11:iyae077. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae077 PMID: 38733622.

wtfEx48 [rab-3p::Chrimson::unc-54 3'UTR + pha-1(+)]. Maintain at 20-25C to select for animals carrying the array. Keep plates covered to avoid unnecessary exposure to light. Pan-neuronal expression of Chrimson. Reference: Sharma AK, et al. Genetics 2024 May 11:iyae077. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae077 PMID: 38733622.

pkIs2386 [unc-54p::alphasynuclein::YFP + unc-119(+)]. neIs9 [myo-3::HA::rde-1 + rol-6(su1006)] X. Rollers. YFP expression in the muscles. Derived by crossing parental strains NL5901 and WM118 to produce a Parkinson's model with muscle-only RNAi. Reference: Snow S, et al. (2024). Neuronal CBP-1 is required for enhanced body muscle proteostasis in response to reduced translation downstream of mTOR. Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark.

eif-2alpha(rog3) is a (S49A) substitution allele (I:2073439..2073448; WS220) removing P site and PAM site. eif-2alpha (Y37E3.10) encodes the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2). Reference: Rollins J, et al. Loss of eif-2alpha phosphorylation on S49 (mammalian S51) associated with the integrated stress response hastens development in C. elegans. MicroPubl Biol. 2017;2017:10.17912/W2BM1S. doi: 10.17912/W2BM1S. Erratum in: MicroPubl Biol. 2020 Feb 27;2020: PMID: 32292896.

dbEx719 [npr-5::mCherry + unc-122p::GFP]. Pick GFP+ to maintain. mCherry expression in a subset of amphid neurons (ADF, ASE, ASG, ASI, ASJ, ASK, AWA, AWB), in the inner labial neuron IL2, in the interneurons AIA and AUA, and in the phasmids (PHA, PHB). Expression was also seen in head, neck, and body wall muscles. Reference: Cohen M, et al. 2009 Cell Metabolism 9: 375-385.

acEx102 [vha-6p::pmk-1::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Maintain by picking Rollers. Reference: (2010) J Bio Chem 285(14):10832-40.

acEx177 [ges-1p::mrp-1::GFP + vha-6::DsRed + unc-122p::RFP]. Pick RFP+ to maintain. Translationally fused MRP-1::GFP expressed under intestinal specific ges-1 promoter, MRP-1::GFP proteins localize at the basolateral membrane of the intestine. Translationally fused VHA-6::RFP expressed under its own promoter, VHA-6::RFP proteins localize at the lumen or luminal membrane of the intestine. For better results, observe fluorescence signals on the L4 stage animals and also under higher magnification microscopy. Reference: Lalsiamthara J & Aballay A. Commun Biol. 2022 May 5;5(1):422. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03381-1. PMID: 35513700.

acEx187 [vha-6p::nhr-8::SL2::GFP + rol-6(su1006)]. Pick Rollers to maintain (GFP expression in intestine is easy to see and might be easier to score than Rol). Intestinal rescue of nhr-8(ok186) mutants. Reference: Otarigho B & Aballay A. 2020. iScience. 2020 May 22;23(5):101068. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101068. PMID: 32361270.

Reduced lifespan, chemotaxis defective, co-suppression of transgenes in somatic cells. Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Hundley HA, et al. RNA. 2008 Oct;14(10):2050-60.

Reduced lifespan, chemotaxis defective, co-suppression of transgenes in somatic cells. Maintain under normal conditions. Reference: Hundley HA, et al. RNA. 2008 Oct;14(10):2050-60.

mjIs134 [mex-5p::GFP::(Gly)5Ala::his-58::tbb-2 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. N-terminal Auxin-Inducible Degron and HA tag inserted into the endogenous hrde-1 locus. gfp fluorescence in germline (mex-5::gfp). Control strain for BFF69; does not carry TIR1 transgene necessary for the degradation. hrde-1(pig6) crRNA sequence: CAUAAUUUUGUCGAGCAAGU. Reference: Toker IA, et al. Dev Cell. 2022 Feb 7;57(3):298-309.e9. PMID: 35134343.

mjIs134 [mex-5p::GFP::(Gly)5Ala::his-58::tbb-2 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. ieSi38 [sun-1p::TIR1::mRuby::sun-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] IV. N-terminal Auxin-Inducible Degron and HA tag inserted into the endogenous hrde-1 locus. Germline-expressed TIR1 and germline GFP. Allows for the degradation of hrde-1 and heritable RNAi deficiency in the presence of auxin. hrde-1(pig6) crRNA sequence: CAUAAUUUUGUCGAGCAAGU. Reference: Toker IA, et al. Dev Cell. 2022 Feb 7;57(3):298-309.e9. PMID: 35134343.

qpIs11 [vha-1p::GFP + unc-119(+)] I. Strong expression of GFP in the cytoplasm of the excretory canal cell (exc) and slightly less strong expression in the head mesodermal cell (hmc). Reference: Mattingly BC & Buechner M. Dev Biol. 2011 Nov 1;359(1):59-72.

inIs179 [ida-1p::GFP]. GFP is expressed in a subset of neurons and the neuroendocrine uv1 cells of the vulva. Identified neurons include ADE, ALA, ASI, ASK, AUA, ASG, AVH, AVJ, AVK, VC, HSN, PDE, PVP, PHA, PHB, PHC. Male sex-specific neurons include CA and some ray neurons. Plasmid pida-1::GFP 7.6 was injected into N2 and integrated to generate BL5715, then crossed into him-8(e1489) background.

byEx836 [odr-4p::tax-4::GFP + myo-2p::mCherry]. Pick mCherry+ animals to maintain. Rescues tax-4 null mutant. Expresses tax-4(+) in AWA, AWB, AWC, ADF, ASG, ASH, ASI, ASJ, ASK, ADL, PHA, and PHB sensory neurons, but not AFD sensory neurons. Reference: Liu S, Schulze E, Baumeister R. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e32360.

byEx1551 [vha-6p::endu-2::eGFP::3xFLAG + myo-2p::mCherry]. Pick mCherry+ animals to maintain array. Transgene provides intestinal rescue of endu-2(tm4977) that also rescues mortal germline (Mrt) phenotype. Reference: Qi W, et al. (2020) A secreted endoribonuclease ENDU-2 from the soma protects germline immortality in C. elegans. BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2020.12.04.408260. Accepted by Nature Communications.

ieSi64 [gld-1p::TIR1::mRuby::gld-1 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Essentially wild-type when maintained on NGM plates. All germline stem cells enter into meiosis when treated with Auxin (1mM). References: Chen J, et al. PLoS Genet. 2020 Mar 20;16(3):e1008650. PMID: 32196486. Chen J, et al. 2020 MicroPublication (https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000310) .

Isolated from a pineapple field in Hawaii in 1972 by L. Hollen. Wild type. Low copy Tc1; pattern IX. C. elegans wild isolate. CB subclone of HA-8 (Tc1 pattern IX). See also WBPaper00005369. [NOTE (4-2014): Users reported abnormalities in CB4856 in late 2013 and early 2014. The current working stock at the CGC was thawed in 2-2014 from stock frozen in 1995.]

muIs252 [eft-3p::wrmScarlet1-10::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Homozygous viable. Endogenously-tagged wrmScarlet11::vha-13 generated via CRISPR/Cas9 insertion into parental strain CF4582. Reference: Goudeau J, et al. Genetics. 2021 Apr 15;217(4):iyab014. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab014. PMID: 33693628

muIs252 [eft-3p::wrmScarlet1-10::unc-54 3'UTR + Cbr-unc-119(+)] II. Two tandem repeats of split-wrmScarlet11 inserted at the N-terminus of the endogenous VHA-13 locus; detectable in somatic tissues where wrmScarlet1-10 is present. Figure 4A from Goudeau et al., Genetics 2021. Reference: Goudeau J, et al. Genetics. 2021 Apr; 217(4): iyab014. PMID: 33693628.

rgEx81[pha-1(+) + unc-103 promoter E::unc-103 genomic DNA]. Maintain at 20C.

rgEx235 [plc-3p::YFP + pha-1(+)]. Expresses YFP from a 4.4bk upstream plc-3 promoter. Maintain at 20C.

rgEx251[pha-1(+) + osm-12 promoter:: unc-103(gf)]. Maintain at 20C.

The hemaglutinin (HA) epitope tag was inserted using CRISPR/Cas9 through homologous recombination. The nine amino acid HA epitope was placed between C. remanei (EM464) MSS-1 residues 22 and 23, one residue downstream of the predicted mature N-terminus after signal peptide cleavage. NOTE: nm74 was originally described as nmIs9. Derived from parental strain SB146. Reference: Yin D, et al. Science. 2018 Jan 5;359(6371):55-61.

qcEx53 [vha-6p::GFP::sma-3 + rol-6(su1006)]. Sma. Rollers. Pick rollers to maintain. Reference: Wang J, Tokarz R, Savage-Dunn C. Development. 2002 Nov;129(21):4989-98.

qcIs59 [vha-6p::GFP::sma-3 + rol-6(su1006)]. Small Rollers. GFP::SMA-3 fusion protein is expressed in the intestine. Derivative of a strain described in Wang et al., 2002, Development 129:4989-4998.

neIs9 [myo-3p::HA::rde-1 + rol-6(su1006)] X. ldrIs1 [dhs-3p::dhs-3::GFP + unc-76(+)]. Rollers. RDE-1 activity is rescued in the body-wall muscle, making animals RNAi-deficient except for body-wall muscle cells. Derived by crossing parental strains WM118 and LIU1. dhs-3::GFP is expressed mainly in intestinal cells and localized to intestinal lipid droplets.

dvIs19 [gst-4p::GFP::NLS] III. rexEx13 [hsp-16p::HA::wdr-23::halo + mec-7p::mRFP]. Pick RFP+ worms to maintain. Constitutive red fluorescence in touch-receptor neurons. Heat shock induces expression of HA::WDR23::Halo protein. Oxidative stress induces expression of GFP.

Misshapen pharynx; worms hatch with pharynx of correct gross shape, but disorganized, with nuclei misplaced. Most homozygotes arrest in L1, escapers grow up to become very starved adults with deformed pharynges with abnormally small terminal bulb, thick nucleated isthmus. Weakly cold sensitive. Makes dauers that don't recover; doesn't survive freezing well.

Deformed pharynx.

wyIs45 [ttx-3p::GFP::rab-3 + unc-122p::RFP] X. olaEx1411 [dpy-7p::egl-15(5A)::HA + unc-122p::GFP]. Maintain by picking animals with GFP expression in coelomocytes. Reference: Shao Z, et al. Cell. 2013 Jul 18;154(2):337-50.

uonEx1 [unc-54::alpha-synuclein::CFP + unc-54::alpha-synuclein::YFP(Venus)]. No additional transformation marker was included in the array. uonEx1 also known as SC+SV in reference publications. Reduced lifespan (25-35% lower) and reduced pharyngeal pumping rate compared to N2. Novel transgenic strain for monitoring the influence of genetic and/or environmental factors on the extent of alpha-synuclein aggregation using FRET signals. Because the two fusion proteins are separate, FRET is only possible when synuclein aggregation brings a CFP tag very close to a YFP tag within an aggregate. We suggest using this strain in conjunction with the positive control (high FRET) strain DDP2 or with strain NL5901 which shows opposite changes in FRET. References: Nagarajan A, et al. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2015 Aug 21. Bodhicharla R, et al. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2012 Dec;11(8):965-75.

Male-female strain. Maintain by mating. Strain used for sequencing. DF5081 is the strain of Caenorhabditis japonica that Karin Kiontke generated with 20x incrossing of DF5080. http://genome.wustl.edu/pub/organism/Invertebrates/Caenorha bditis_japonica/assembly/Caenorhabditis_japonica-3.0.2/ASSE MBLY

sup-35 rescues synthetic lethality of ubc-18 and pha-1.

Superficially wild-type. sup-36 suppresses temperature-sensitive lethality of pha-1(e2123). Constructed by crossing GE24 and MT14541.

uwaEx4 [ubc-18::GFP::HA + myo-3p::RFP + unc-119(+)]. Pick RFP+ animals to maintain. Translational GFP transgene rescues ubc-18(tm5426).

uwaEx2 [vha-6p::CERULEAN-VENUS::lgg-1 + unc-119(+)]. Pick non-Unc to maintain. lgg-1 tagged with oxCerulean-oxVenus double fluorescent protein (dFP) for monitoring autophagy in the intestines. Reference: Chapin H, et al. Aging (Albany NY). 2015 Jun;7(6):419-34.

uwaSi2 [vha-6p::CERULEAN-VENUS::lgg-1 + unc-119(+)] II. MosSCI insertion into ttTi5605 II. lgg-1 tagged with oxCerulean-oxVenus double fluorescent protein (dFP) for monitoring autophagy in the intestines. Reference: Chapin H, et al. Aging (Albany NY). 2015 Jun;7(6):419-34.

raEx59 [T05G5.1p::F22B5.10(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx62 [T05G5.1p::B0412.3(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx65 [T05G5.1p::C53B4.3(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx66 [T05G5.1p::F46F11.1(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx67 [T05G5.1p::B0024.10(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx68 [T05G5.1p::D2013.9(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx69 [T05G5.1p::T06A10.3(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx70 [T05G5.1p::ZK1236.7(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.

raEx71 [T05G5.1p::K07G5.1(cDNA)::GFP + pha-1(+) + rol-6(su1006)]. Temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutant rescued by extrachromosomal array carrying pha-1(+), dominant rol-6, and cDNA::GFP fusion driven by muscle promoter (T05G5.1). Grow at 25 degrees to maintain. At 15 degrees maintain by picking Rol-6 animals. WBPaper00038444.