- male posterior alae
Males have alae that extend into the tail region. Alae are small linear ridges running along the lateral lines of the cuticle. In C. elegans alae do not extend into the tail region (Wormatlas).
- squat
Squat animals are dumpy as homozygotes, but roll as heterozygotes.
- increased acidified compartments
Animals contain excess acidified intracellular compartments. These compartments are positive for indicators such as Acridine Orange as well as LysoTracker Red, in a lysosome-like manner.
- rachis narrow
The nucleus-free core of germline cytoplasm in the gonad is not as wide as control animals.
- bitter tastant response variant
Animals are not repelled by bitter tastants such as quinine, primaquine quinacrine etc., to the same extent as control animals.
- enhanced taste aversion defective
The conditioned aversion to a specific chemical compound as a result of that compound being coupled with an unfavorable condition, such as starvation, does not increase to the same extent as observed for control animals.
- homolog association variant
The association of homologs during diakinesis and the maintenance of their association through meiosis I as well as the preservation of centromeric cohesin between sister chromatids does not proceed as it does in control animals.
- weak pumping
The contraction and relaxation movements of the pharyngeal muscle that mediate feeding is not as robust as compared to control animals.