Table 5.

An overview of C. elegans populations sorted by microfluidic devices.

Target sorting population(s)	Capabilities	Reference(s)
Eggs (embryos)	Embryonic gene expression and morphogenesis	[38,46,49,93,113,116,117,162]
L1 larvae	Late embryonic development and other studies of developmental processes	[32,118]
L3 to L4 larvae	Genetics research with higher sample purity, test of size effect on the sorting effectiveness	[120]
L2 to L4 larvae	Simultaneous synchronization of massive different stages of worms for relevant studies	[55]
L1 to L4 larvae	Long-term and continuous larval phenotype observation and population acquisition	[46,121]
Adults of different ages	Neurodegenerative disease and aging research	[24,54,55,61]
All stages including adults	Biochemistry, disease, genetics, and more	[20–22,47–49,51,75,110]
Mutants from wild type	Mutation studies and drug discovery	[20,24,48,49,55,74,112,122,134,135]