Unable to propagate indefinitely: lines become sterile from F10-F28, with short telomeres and fused chromosomes. Hypersensitive to X-irradiation; weak Him phenotype; strong Him phenotype in later generations resulting from X-A fusions. Cross once or twice, freeze down many F2 mrt-2 plates, and go back to these plates every two months for fresh a mrt-2 line. A BstN1 RFLP makes the mrt-2 mutation easy to track.

Y41C4A.14 Homozygous. Outer Left Sequence: tcacgcaatcagtgagcttc. Outer Right Sequence: accgagcattttattcgacg. Inner Left Sequence: gtgcgatggcctacaaaact. Inner Right Sequence: ctcggggatcgaacattaaa. Inner Primer PCR Length: 3107. Estimated Deletion Size: about 2600 bp. Attribution: This strain was provided by the C. elegans Gene Knockout Project at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which was part of the International C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium, which should be acknowledged in any publications resulting from its use. Paper_evidence WBPaper00041807

Dumpy. e2760/0 Dpy males are able to mate (ME 1/2), in contrast to other dpy-6 alleles. mrt-2 induced.