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. 2021 Mar 4;12:1441. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21691-6

Fig. 1. CSR-1 localizes to the cytoplasm of somatic blastomeres and its slicer activity is essential for embryonic development.

Fig. 1

a Immunostaining of CSR-1 and PIWI in 1-, 4-, 8-, and more than 100-cell embryos of a 3xFLAG::HA::CSR-1 CRISPR-Cas9 strain, using anti-FLAG and anti-PRG-1 antibodies. DAPI signal is shown in blue. Scale bars represent 10 µm. b Brood size assays of CSR-1 degron strains with and without Auxin. The data points correspond to the number of living larvae from individual worms. Data are presented as mean ± SD. Two-tailed P values were calculated using Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon tests. The sample size n (worms) is indicated in parentheses. c Percentages of embryonic lethality from the brood size experiment shown in b, measured as the percentage of dead embryos versus the total number among laid embryos. Data are presented as mean ± SD. The sample size n (worms) is indicated in parentheses. d Percentage of embryonic lethality in CSR-1 degron strains complemented with single-copy transgenic expression of CSR-1 with (ADH) or without (DDH) mutation in the catalytic domain. The percentage of embryonic lethality is calculated by dividing the number of dead embryos by the total number of laid embryos. Dots correspond to the percentages of embryonic lethality from individual worms. Data are presented as mean ± SD. Two-tailed P values were calculated using Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon tests. The sample size n (worms) is indicated in parentheses. The graphical representation of the experiment is shown on the left. Source data are available online.