Table 1.
Developmental noise in four Pristionchus strains
| (P4.p) | P5.p | P6.p | P7.p | P8.p | RS106, n = 1,049 | PS1843, n = 1,039 | RS145, n = 1,147 | RS144, n = 1,010 | F2 PxW, n = 503 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild type | 2° | 1° | 2° | 4° | 1,047 | 1,030 | 1,134 | 1,006 | 499 | |
| 2° specification | D | 1° | 2° | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2° | 1° | D | 4° | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Centering | 3° | D | 1° | 4° | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3° | 2° | 1° | 4° | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 3° | 2° | 1° | 2° | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1° | 2° | 3° | 4° | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2° competence | 2° | 1° | 3° | 4° | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 3° | 1° | 2° | 4° | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2.5° | 1° | 2° | 4° | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2° | 1° | 2.5° | 4° | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Cell survival | 2° | 1° | X | 4° | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| X | 1° | 2° | 4° | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| X | 1° | 3° | 4° | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| D | 2° | 1° | 2° | 4° | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
RS106 and PS1843 are strains of P. pacificus, and RS144 and RS145 are strains of P. entomophagus. The last column shows data from randomly picked F2 animals of a cross between RS106 from Poland and PS1843 from Washington. See ref. 6 for cell fate definitions.