Maintain at 15 or 20C. Mrt at 25C. Defective for DNA damage induced germ cell death and cell cycle arrest.

opIs34 [hus-1p::hus-1::GFP + unc-119(+)]. Low-copy integrated array of 1144 bp hus-1 promoter and genomic coding sequence fused to GFP. Nuclear expression of GFP in germ cells and embryos. Integrated GFP construct completely rescues DNA damage induced cell cycle arrest defect and partially rescues DNA damage induced apoptosis of hus-1(op241).

Heterozygotes are WT GFP+ and segregate non-glowing hus-1 homozygotes and very rare homozygous hT2 glowing animals, and dead eggs. qIs48 is an insertion of ccEx9747 with markers: myo-2::GFP expressed brightly in the pharynx throughout development, pes-10::GFP expressed in embryos, and gut promoter driving GFP in the intestine. hus-1(op244) mutants from homozygous parents show an incompletely penetrant maternal effect embryonic lethality. Note: qIs48 has been observed to recombine off hT2, typically leaving behind a functional homozygous viable hT2 with Bli-4 phenotype.