sodium acetate chemotaxis defective

Failure in directed movement in response to sodium acetate. In C. elegans, sodium acetate is an attractant. Sodium acetate has also subsequently been used to assay for Na+ attraction in C. elegans.

embryonic lethal

Animals die during embryonic development. In C. elegans, often assayed as refractile eggs that fail to hatch; when applied to large-scale RNAi screens in C. elegans, more than 10% of embryos die.

ammonium chloride chemotaxis defective

Failure in directed movement in response to ammonium chloride compared to control. In C. elegans, NH4Cl is an attractant. NH4Cl has also subsequently been used to assay for Cl- attraction in C. elegans.

chromatin accessibility abnormal

Animals exhibit cells with an abnormal degree of chromatin accessibility, compared to controls, detected using techniques such as ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing).

chloride chemotaxis defective

Failure to execute the characteristic response to chloride. In C. elegans, chloride is typically an attractant.

plugged excretory pore

Males receive copulatory plugs from other males, deposited on their excretory pores. This phenotype is polymorphic among C. elegans strains and also in C. briggsae.

stuffed pharynx

Pharynx becomes clogged with food. In C. elegans, this is often a result of pharyngeal pumping defects.

multiple alae

Alae contain more cuticular ridges than control animals. In C. elegans alae are composed of three cuticular ridges.

multiple hooks

Male animals exhibit multiple copulatory hooks. In wild type C. elegans males, a single hook is normally present.

protrusion at vulval region

Large protrusion at the normal position of the vulva, as seen in C. elegans lin-12 null animals.