This strain is homozygous for a deletion (gk3109) in C24A1.1, detectable by PCR using the following primers. External left primer: AGACCACGCCTACTACTTGGC. External right primer: CCATGTTGCTTCCAGTGCCAC. Internal left primer: CGATGTTCCGCTCTGAGCTTC. Internal right primer: TGGTCACAGTGCATTGCTCTC. Internal WT amplicon: 2029 bp. Deletion size: 1180 bp. Deletion left flank: TTTCGAAAGCTTGCCGCAAAACTCTGCCAT. Deletion right flank: AGACCTAAAAATTCCGGCAAATACCACATT. Validation: gk3109 passed by CGH. 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

Endogenous locus tagged with T2A::3xNLS::GFP using CRISPR/Cas9. Please contact Oliver Hobert prior to publishing work using this strain.

goeEx737 [flp-24p::SL1::GCaMP3.35-SL2::SL2::mKate2::unc-54 3'UTR + unc-119(+)]. ALA-specific expression of GCaMP with an additional mKate marker for expression reference. Pick mKate+ to maintain. High transmission rate (>99%). Reference: Konietzka et al. 2019. Current Biology (accepted).

syIs526 [flp-24p::NLS::GAL4(sk)::VP64::let-858 3'UTR + unc-122p::RFP + 1kb DNA ladder (NEB)]. cGAL driver for ALA neurons.