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When the fluorescent reporter Venus was fused to the 3.5 kb lury-1 promoter (lury-1prom), the expression of Venus was observed only in two classes of pharyngeal neurons. These neurons were identified as the M1 and M2 neurons by their morphology, position, and the co-expression of established cell markers (Kim and Li, 2004; Refai et al., 2013). We found that the lury-1prom::Venus reporter was robustly expressed in M1 in all larval stages and in adults, whereas its expression in M2 was not detectable in most L1-L3 worms but started to increase from the L4 stage.

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ADL ADF AVH (or AVJ) AVG AIZ RIC VC PHA PVQ [O. Hobert(personal communication to Shawn Lockery). lin-11-GFP expression can be observed from late embryonic stages throughout larval and adult stages. The lin-11-GFP-expressing cells were identified in early larval stages. At the L1 stage, lin-11-GFP expression is exclusively confined to neurons in the head ganglia and the lumbar ganglion in the tail. The neurons that express lin-11-GFP in the head ganglion are the sensory neurons ADF and ADL and the interneurons AIZ and RIC. Weak lin-11-GFP expression can be observed in the interneuron AVG that sends a process along the ventral cord. The identity of another head neuron pair that exhibits lin-11-GFP expression could not be unambiguously determined, but because of its characteristic axonal morphology in the ventral cord, authors tentatively assigned this pair of neurons as either the AVH or AVJ interneuron.