Table 4. Overview of C. briggsae egg-laying defective mutants.
Egl Penetrance (%) |
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Class | Features | Gene | Alleles | Mutation | Non-Egl | Semi-Egl | Egl | n |
1 | Wild-type vulva | egl(bh2)a | 2 | bh2 | 0 | 69 | 31 | 103 |
egl(bh21) | 1 | bh21 | 0 | 41 | 59 | 120 | ||
egl(sy5395) | 1 | sy5395 | 6 | 32 | 62 | 244 | ||
2 | Fewer Pn.p cells | unc(sy5505) | 1 | sy5505 | 22 | 17 | 61 | 127 |
Cbr-unc-84 | 1 | sy5506 | 56 | 21 | 23 | 100 | ||
3 | Reduced VPC induction | lin(bh7) | 1 | bh7 | 81 | 12 | 7 | 137 |
lin(bh14) | 1 | bh14 | 39 | 32 | 29 | 133 | ||
Cbr-lin-39 | 2 | bh20 | 0 | 4 | 96 | 140 | ||
bh23 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 41 | ||||
4 | Abnormal vulval invagination | Cbr-lin-11 | 2 | sy5336 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 |
sy5368 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 | ||||
lin(bh13)# | 2 | bh13 | 1 | 1 | 98 | 102 | ||
lin(bh26) | 1 | bh26 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 | ||
lin(bh25) | 1 | bh25 | 1 | 23 | 76 | 105 | ||
lin(sy5425) | 1 | sy5425 | 36 | 25 | 39 | 104 | ||
− | Unclassified | lin(sy5212) | − | sy5212 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 49 |
lin(sy5426) | − | sy5426 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 29 |
Egl, animals did not lay eggs at all; n: number of animals scored; Non-Egl, animals continued to lay eggs throughout their reproductive life; Semi-Egl, animals laid eggs initially but became Egl afterward.
The phenotype of the other allele of this locus was not characterized in detail.