glp-1(oz264) is a gain-of-function allele. Homozygous sterile mutation balanced by bli-4- and GFP-marked translocation. Heterozygotes are WT with pharyngeal GFP signal, and segregate WT GFP, arrested hT2 aneuploids, and non-GFP sterile oz273; oz264 homozygotes. Homozygous hT2[bli-4 let-? qIs48] inviable. Pick WT GFP and check for correct segregation of progeny to maintain.

Segregates WT RFP+ heterozygotes, viable non-RFP nemp-1(oz534) homozygotes, and RFP+ Dpy. Maintain by picking wild-type RFP+. About 10-20% of nemp-1(oz534) homozygotes are sterile.

Segregates WT RFP+ heterozygotes, viable non-RFP nemp-1(oz535) homozygotes, and RFP+ Dpy. Maintain by picking wild-type RFP+. About 10-20% of nemp-1(oz535) homozygotes are sterile.

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.

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.

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.

Chinese rhabditis hermaphrodite nematode from Bill Wood's Chinese collection, Beijing. According to David Fitch this strain is Panagrolaimus sp. April 2008: According to sequence data from Howe & Denver 2008 BMC Evol Biol 8:62, strain BW287 is C. briggsae.

Withered tail. Adults shorter than WT. Embryonic cell migrations affected: CAN migration with high penetrance. Previously called mig-11.

Maintain at 15C. Temperature sensitive embryonic lethal. Sterile at 25C. Congenic strain, N2 and Bergerac BE. This allele should NOT be assumed to define a gene to which someone gave the name zyg-12. This name should not be used unless someone finds a non-complementing Bristol mutation. There is no evidence at present that the ts results from a single gene defect. Has been backcrossed >6 times to Bristol strains and should only contain Bergerac DNA in the unc-85 to dpy-10 region.

No delta5 fatty acid desaturase activity.

No N3 fatty acid desaturase activity.

No delta 12 fatty acid desaturase activity. Slow growing. Unc. Dpy. Cold sensitive - maintain at 20C or higher.

Slow growing. Unc. Dpy. No delta6 fatty acid desaturase activity.

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.

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.

A degron::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. A degron::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. A degron::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. A degron::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. A degron::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.

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

ieSi1 [htp-3p::GFP::him-8 + unc-119(+)] II. ltIs37 [pie-1p::mCherry::his-58 + unc-119(+)] IV. ieSi1 is prone to silencing; GFP might not be visible at lower magnifications. [NOTE: the ltIs37 [pie-1p::mCherry::his-58 + unc-119(+)] IV transgene was previously annotated as itIs37 in this strain. The correct name of the transgene is ltIs37 and not itIs37.] Reference: Wynne DJ, et al. J Cell Biol. 2012 Jan 9;196(1):47-64.

mIs11 [myo-2p::GFP + pes-10p::GFP + F22B7.9::GFP]. Heterozygotes are wild-type with dim GFP signal in the pharynx. mIs11 homozygotes are wild-type with bright GFP in the pharynx. ieDf2 homozygotes (non-GFP) develop normally but produce 97.5% inviable embryos and a high frequency of males among the surviving self-progeny. 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. ieDf2 is a deficiency of zim-1, zim-2, zim-3, and him-8 generated by MosDel, resulting in single-copy insertion of a copy of the C. briggsae unc-119 gene on Chromosome IV. The deletion spans the sequences from the beginning of the zim-1 coding sequence through the ttTi22866 Mos1 insertion site.

Slow moving Unc.

Catecholamine abnormal. Recessive. M-MATING++ 1-10%WT. Previously called ctl-2.

Migration defective: pre VC. Variable expressivity. Reverse kinker as adult. L1 moves well. Temperature sensitive. Can be maintained at 20C.

Piggy phenotype (severe Dpy). Growth slow. Poor viability.

Unc-kinky backing. Slow moving.

Slow moving Unc. Paramyosin abnormal.

Slow moving Unc. Body Muscle abnormal. M-MATING-NO SUCCESS.

Unc. Slow moving.

Faint or invisible alae in L1. Segregates males.

Slow moving Unc. Recessive. M-MATING+POOR <1%WT.

tra-2 suppressed. Viable hermaphrodite. See also CGC 397. Grow between 22.5C and 24C.

tra-3 suppressed. Viable hermaphrodite. See also CGC 397.

Heterozygotes are wild-type, and segregate wild-type heterozygotes, fertile wild-type males (tra-1 homozygotes), and Dpy. Can recombine: pick individual WT hermaphrodites and check for correct segregation of progeny to maintain.

Heterozygotes are slow moving. Segregates paralysed small. eDf1 eDp21 homozygotes die in larval development.

Slow moving Unc. Body muscle abnormal. Temperature sensitive. Recessive. M-MATING+POOR <1%WT.

Selfed hermaphrodites produce 5% males and 2% XXX hermaphrodites (percent of viable progeny), and 30% unhatched eggs (percent of total progeny).

Temperature sensitive lethal: inviable at 25C, grows at 20C and 15C. Somewhat sickly. Small brood sizes. At 25C homozygotes have a starved translucent appearance, facilitating Nomarski visualization of neuron processes.

Homozygous viable and looks almost normal by dissecting scope, but under Nomarski microscopy the gut has a very abnormal spongy appearance, which is especially noticeable in L4 larvae.

Variably Dpy, slow growing. Inviable on MYOB medium.

Poorly balanced. Hets are WT and segregate WT, Dpys and ect-2 homozygotes. ect-2 homozygotes are sterile Uncs which reach adulthood, sometimes giving polynucleate oocytes. ect-2 pka let-21.

Dpy. Severe. Semidominant. Inviable at 15C.

Heterozygotes are WT and segregate WT, Dpy, and Long Thin Steriles (adults lay no or few eggs). lin-23 animals have excess cell divisions in larval blast cell lineages.