Figure 3.

Schematic of the C. elegans germline. The mitotic tip is shown to the left, and stages of meiosis are demarcated by characteristic chromosome morphologies. Using nuclear progression data from Jaramillo-Lambert et al. 2007 [22] and embryonic survival data from our lab and others, we devised a timeline for the analysis of different populations of germline nuclei after mutagen exposure that assumes a negligible effect of mutagen-induced arrest on embryonic output.