FHOD-1::GFP is localized in F-actin rich muscles, including BWMs, pharyngeal muscles, and vulval muscles. FHOD-1 is present diffusely in the elongated bands of F-actin rich embryonic myoblasts. FHOD-1 is not detectable in F-actin rich BWMs of L1 larvae but appears as puncta along muscle edges and as striations across the BWM contractile lattice in L2 and L3 larvae.
As reported previously, the promoters of the a, b, and f isoforms drove expression in the whole body except for the pharynx (isoform a), a few tissues (isoform b), and almost all tissues except the gonad (isoform f).We also confirmed Venus expression in head neurons including ASER, by these promoters.
Pdaf-6GFP was expressed in the amphid sheath glia. Expression was also seen in amphid socket cells, the phasmid sensory organ sheath and socket cells, cells of the excretory system (the excretory canal, duct, pore, and gland cells), the vulval E and F cells, the K, K', F, and U rectal epithelial cells, and less frequently in posterior intestinal cells.