Fig. 1.

ptl-1 alleles ok621 and tm543 display allelic differences in touch sensitivity. (A) Genomic locus of ptl-1 (transcript F42G9.9a) indicating regions comprising the ok621 and tm543 deletions. Exons are shown as black boxes, introns as solid lines and untranslated regions at the 5′ and 3′ as white boxes; 5′ is on the left. Regions encoding putative microtubule binding repeats are marked 1–5 with arrowheads. (B) Data for sensitivity to gentle touch, shown for ptl-1(ok621) and ptl-1(tm543) mutant strains and wild-type controls (n = 45 in total for two biological replicates). Assays were conducted on 1-day-old adults. Bars indicate mean±s.e.m. One-way ANOVA, Bonferroni post-test; ns, no significance; *P<0.05.