Table 1.

The fraction of “Dead” embryos over all embryos and of the “Normal” embryos over the alive embryo population results are illustrated for 200 mM, 20 mM, 2 mM, and control (0 mM) conditions of l-glucose, d-glucose, sucrose, glycerol, and NaCl for wild-type C. elegans embryos

Compound	Dose	Dead embryo (%)	Normal embryo over alive embryo (%)
l-Glucose	200 mM	59.8	29.7
	20 mM	36.3	28.5
	2 mM	22.2	34.3
	Control	38.5	46.7
d-Glucose	200 mM	56.1	20.8
	20 mM	52.7	47.9
	2 mM	37.2	56.5
	Control	48.0	47.2
Sucrose	200 mM	19.4	35.9
	20 mM	25.7	36.2
	2 mM	27.4	31.5
	Control	30.1	33.6
Glycerol	200 mM	37.1	37.1
	20 mM	29.0	30.7
	2 mM	44.9	32.6
	Control	36.5	23.5
NaCl	200 mM	42.8	22.3
	20 mM	32.6	38.7
	2 mM	29.3	34.9
	Control	18.5	43.3