Temperature-sensitive. Weakly fertile at 16C; sterile at 23C. Incomplete de-repression of nonstop mRNAs. Reference: Arribere, JA and Fire, AZ. Nonsense-mediated decay triggers SKI/pelota-dependent decay in a metazoan.

This strain is homozygous for a deletion (gk1288) in ZK354.2, detectable by PCR using the following primers. External left primer: GCCTCCCCCTATCGATAAAC. External right primer: TCGTCTTGTTGTTCTTCCCC. Internal left primer: TGAACATGAAGAGCTCGGTG. Internal right primer: GTACCCGGGACCCTTGTAAT. Internal WT amplicon: 1294 bp. Deletion size: 770 bp. Deletion left flank: AACATGAAGAGCTCGGTGAGTTATTGATGG. Deletion right flank: CCAAGAAAAACGATGAAGCTGAGGAGCAGA. Validation: gk1288 passed by CGH. Other deletion (gk3110) identified 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