Table 5. Vulval induction pattern in Class 2 and 3 mutants.
| % VPC Fate Pattern (F/3°/I) |
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| Class | Genotype | VPC Induction Score | P3.p | P4.p | P5.p | P6.p | P7.p | P8.p | n |
| AF16 | 3 | 61/39/0 | 0/100/0 | 0/0/100 | 0/0/100 | 0/0/100 | 0/100/0 | 101 | |
| 2 | unc(sy5505) | 1.7 ± 1.3 | 39/4/0 | 0/35/0 | 0/0/50 | 0/0/75 | 0/0/48 | 2/37/0 | 52 |
| sy5505; bhEx141 | 1.2 ± 1.2 | 25/2/00 | 8/8/00 | 0/0/31 | 0/0/62 | 0/0/31 | 4/13/0 | 52 | |
| sy5505; bhEx142 | 1.4 ± 1.1 | 24/4/0 | 2/18/0 | 0/0/38 | 0/0/62 | 0/0/38 | 4/11/0 | 45 | |
| Cbr-unc-84(sy5506) | 1.9 ± 1.2 | 31/14/0 | 10/18/0 | 0/0/53 | 0/0/82 | 0/0/51 | 14/25/0 | 51 | |
| sy5506; bhEx139 | 2.9 ± 0.4a | 54/30/0 | 0/86/0 | 0/0/96 | 0/0/100 | 0/0/94 | 0/93/0 | 91 | |
| sy5506; bhEx152 | 2.9 ± 0.4a | 57/31/0 | 2/90/0 | 0/0/94 | 0/0/100 | 0/0/96 | 0/94/0 | 51 | |
| 3 | lin(bh7) | 2.3 ± 1 | 77/23/0 | 54/46/0 | 28/4/68 | 5/0/95 | 32/2/66 | 43/57/0 | 56 |
| lin(bh14) | 2.3 ± 1 | 91/9/0 | 71/29/0 | 35/0/65 | 1/0/99 | 33/0/67 | 65/35/0 | 78 | |
| Cbr-lin-39(bh20) | 0.2 ± 0.4 | 100/0/0 | 100/0/0 | 100/0/0 | 85/0/15 | 100/0/0 | 100/0/0 | 155 | |
| bh20; bhEx134 | 1 ± 0.9a | 100/0/0 | 97/3/0 | 93/0/7 | 40/0/60 | 71/0/29 | 99/1/0 | 88 | |
| bh20; bhEx132 | 0.5 ± 0.5a | 100/0/0 | 100/0/0 | 99/0/1 | 54/0/46 | 100/0/0 | 100/0/0 | 81 | |
| Cbr-lin-39(bh23) | 0 | 96/4/0 | 96/4/0 | 88/12/0 | 96/4/0 | 96/4/0 | 100/0/0 | 50 | |
VPC fates are classified into three categories: F, fused with hyp7 without division, 3°, fused with hyp7 after one cell division, I, induced (either 1°, 2°, or a hybrid fate that could not be uniquely classified). See Materials and Methods for details. For sy5505 and sy5506 animals missing VPCs were excluded from the analysis. VPC, vulval precursor cells.
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VPC induction is significantly higher compared to the parental strain, P < 0.0001.