WormMine: AnatomyTerm WBbt:0003954

• Definition: Anterior lateral microtubule cell, touch receptor
• Name: ALML
• Primary Identifier: WBbt:0003954
• Synonym: lineage name: ABarppaappa

1 Children

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
nucleus of pedigree ABarppaappa	ABarppaappa nucleus		WBbt:0001648

3 Expression Clusters

Regulated By Treatment	Description	Algorithm	Primary Identifier
	Top 300 transcripts enriched in ALML, ALMR, BDUL, BDUR according to single cell RNAseq.	Top 300 enriched transcripts were determined by log2.ratio of the tpm in the cell type vs the tpm in the other cells * the log2 of the cell.type tpm.	WBPaper00061340:ALM_BDU
	Top 300 transcripts enriched in ALML, ALMR, PLML, PLMR according to single cell RNAseq.	Top 300 enriched transcripts were determined by log2.ratio of the tpm in the cell type vs the tpm in the other cells * the log2 of the cell.type tpm.	WBPaper00061340:ALM_PLM
	Single-cell RNA-Seq cell group 20_0 expressed in neuron.	scVI 0.6.0	WBPaper00065841:20_0

189 Expression Patterns

• Primary Identifier: Expr4900
• Remark: Picture: Figure 4.
• Pattern: UNC-69::GFP expression was first detectable in embryos. In immature neurons, UNC-69::GFP expressed in the processes and growth cones of developing neurites. In older larvae and adults, UNC-69::GFP was expressed in neurons of the anterior, lateral, ventral and retro-vesicular ganglia in the head, and in neurons of the preanal, dorso-rectal and lumbar ganglia in the tail. The fusion protein was also present in the ventral nerve cord (VNC), in the dorsal nerve cord (DNC), in the dorsal and ventral sublateral nerve cords, and in commissural axons. The reporter was expressed in the neurons named CAN, HSN, ALM, PLM, AVM, PVM, BDU, and SDQR, as evidenced by its localization to the cell bodies of these neurons. Expression of unc-69 in these latter cells was confirmed using an unc-69::LacZ::NLS fusion.
• Subcellular Localization: In immature neurons, UNC-69::GFP expressed in the processes and growth cones of developing neurites. In older larvae and adults, UNC-69::GFP was expressed in the cell bodies of neurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr4345
• Pattern: GFP expression is nearly ubiquitous in the early embryo. At early comma stage expression becomes intensely focused in the anterior of the embryo. Strong expression is observed from the pharynx and some unidentified head neurons beginning around the 1.5-fold stage. After hatching, GFP expression is present in the ALM and PLM neurons. Beginning in late L1 stages expression comes on in the PVD neurons and some time later in the AVM. No significant expression of GFP was observed in ventral cord commissural motoneurons.

• Primary Identifier: Expr12560

• Primary Identifier: Expr15558

• Primary Identifier: Expr15560

• Primary Identifier: Expr15567

• Primary Identifier: Expr15571

• Primary Identifier: Expr15572

• Primary Identifier: Expr15573

• Primary Identifier: Expr15579

• Primary Identifier: Expr823
• Remark: F22A3.3 = glr-8
• Pattern: I1, I2, MC, NSM, M3 (left/right), I3, MI M4, M3 (left/right), I6, M5, BDU, ALM, PLM, URB (left/right)

• Primary Identifier: Expr15586

• Primary Identifier: Expr15651

• Primary Identifier: Expr15652

• Primary Identifier: Expr15589

• Primary Identifier: Expr15591

• Primary Identifier: Expr15598

• Primary Identifier: Expr15604

• Primary Identifier: Expr15608

• Primary Identifier: Expr15369

• Primary Identifier: Expr11375
• Pattern: eat-4 is expressed in 78 of the 302 neurons of the adult hermaphrodite, which fall into 38 neuron classes (out of a total of 118 anatomically defined neuron classes in the hermaphrodite). Most of these neurons are either sensory- or interneurons. Only two motorneurons utilize glutamate; both are located in the pharynx.

• Primary Identifier: Expr15611

• Primary Identifier: Expr9452
• Remark: Operon: CEOP1368
• Pattern: Animals bearing the transcriptional and translational reporters had similar GFP expression patterns. L1 animals carrying the translation reporter expressed GFP in many neurons, including CANs, DD-type motoneurons and ALMs. Expression in the nervous system began early in comma-stage embryos and peaked in intensity around the 3-fold stage of embryogenesis. Although neuronal expression was much fainter at later larval stages, it persisted in some head and tail neurons through adulthood. Non-neuronal cells that also expressed CRML-1::GFP included the migrating distal tip cells, the pharynx, some vulval epithelial cells, rectal epithelial cells and the excretory canal.
• Subcellular Localization: Sub-cellular localization within the body wall muscle: Muscle cell membrane +/- Muscle arms

• Primary Identifier: Expr720
• Remark: This information was extracted from published material (Archana Sharma-Oates, Andrew Mounsey and Ian A. Hope).
• Pattern: Prominent staining of the entire nervous system, specially the axonal processes emanating from neuronal cell bodies is observed at all developmental stages. Neuronal processes including axonal and dendrites consistently stains brighter than the cell bodies. Staining is detected in the central neurophil (nerve ring) in the head, the ventral cord consisting of motor neurons along the body length, lateral nerve cords, lumbar commissures and neuronal cell bodies in the tail ganglia. Staining is observed in the six sets of touch receptor neurons ALML, ALMR, PLML, PLMR, AVM and PVM. In the head region, neurons and their axonal and dendritic processes in the anterior ganglia, lateral ganglia, ventral ganglion, retro-vesicular ganglion and the nerve ring consisting of axonal fibres from neurons located in the head and tail ganglia are brightly labeled. Neurons and their axonal processes are stained in the tail, which has a pair of bilaterally symmetric lumbar ganglia, a small dorso-rectal ganglion and the pre-anal ganglion at the posterior end of the ventral cord. Besides the major axonal bundle of the ventral nerve cord, the dorsal nerve cord and a set of lateral cords along the body length are also stained. Muscle cells, intestine and hypodermal cells stain weakly. Staining of the mitotic spindles in C. elegans are clearly visible in embryos and meiotic spindles in the germline cells in the gonad of adult hermaphrodites. Spindles are stained more strongly and non-spindle structures.
• Subcellular Localization: Stained in neuronal processes and cell bodies. Spindles are stained more strongly.

• Primary Identifier: Expr15997
• Reporter Gene: We used CRISPR/ Cas9 engineering to insert a tagRFP fluorescent protein at the N-terminus of CATP-8.
• Pattern: We found these animals to show widespread, if not ubiquitous expression of CATP-8, including in the epidermis, muscle, pharynx, intestine, and the major neuronal ganglia. Of note, we detected expression in both neurons that were phenotypically affected in catp-8 mutants as well as neurons that were not visibly affected. For example, clear expression of the endogenous tagRFP::CATP-8 reporter was seen in HSN, PVM, and PVD neurons, but also in ALM neurons and others. We found similar expression patterns in transgenic animals expressing GFP under control of the catp-8 5' region immediately upstream of the ATG start codon, where we also saw widespread expression from embryonic stages onwards, including in muscle, intestine, pharynx and other tissues. Collectively, our studies show that catp-8 is widely, if not ubiquitously, expressed albeit at different levels.

• Primary Identifier: Expr1438
• Remark: All of the reporter constructs produced the same cell-specific expression pattern as transgenes.
• Pattern: The reporter transgenes express ubiquitously in the early embryo starting at about the 100 cell stage during gastrulation. In late embryogenesis and posthatching, expression is more limited. Strongest expression is observed in migrating cells and growing neurons as these cells undergo movements on the epidermis. At hatching, the reporters express in many neurons throughout the animal, in several cells of the pharynx including some pharyngeal neurons, in the elongated processes of the excretory cells, in the amphid and phasmid sheath and socket cells, in the tail hypodermis, and at later stages in intestine, muscles, vulva, and somatic gonad including the gonad sheath and hermaphrodite distal tip cells. The neurons expressing unc-73 include the PLM, ALM, PDE, HSN, CAN, PHC, and PVN neurons and the ventral cord motorneurons. Expression in the HSNs is absent in early larval stages, but begins late in the second larval stage (L2), precisely when axon outgrowth is initiated from the HSN cell bodies. The Q neuroblasts, Pn neuroectoblasts, sex myoblasts (SMs), and canal associated neurons (CANs) express unc-73 reporters. The left and right Q cells begin to express the GFP reporter as they initiate their migrations along the longitudinal axis of the epidermis during the early first larval (L1) stage, and expression in these cells continues beyond the completion of their first division. The unc-73 reporters express in the Pn cells just before this second phase of movemen. The distal tip cells also express the unc-73/reporters during their migration.

• Primary Identifier: Expr946
• Remark: To compare the transcription pattern of the daf-1 promoter with the whole gene, the gfp cDNA was fused to the terminus of the daf-1 gene in a plasmid that included 2.6 kb of upstream sequence. Despite the fact that this transgene rescued the daf-1 Daf-c mutant phenotype, GFP fluorescence was not detected in rescued animals. Hence, these observations were limited to the daf-1 promoter fusion, which may not represent the expression pattern of the whole daf-1 gene if enhancer elements are present in introns or in 3' sequences.
• Pattern: GFP expression was observed in the head and the developing ventral nerve cord beginning in mid-stage embryos and continuing into adulthood. In the head, GFP was detected in more than twenty neurons in the anterior, lateral, ventral and retrovesicular ganglia. Fluorescent processes terminating at the tip of the head suggest that daf-1 is expressed in sensory neurons and in support cells in the amphids and inner labial sensilla. In the midbody, GFP was expressed in the ALM mechanosensory neurons and the PVT neuron, as well as one additional neuron pair. In the lumbar ganglia of the tail, five cells expressing GFP included phasmid neurons and PLN and PLM mechanosensory neurons. The daf-1 promoter also conferred gfp expression in nonneuronal cells, including a membranous sheath surrounding the distal end of the intestine and in the distal tip cell (DTC) of the gonad. In some lines, GFP was sometimes detected in the muscles of L4 and adult animals. In L1 larvae, daf-1 promoters is active in neurons in the head, as well as in the ventral cord and tail. The promoter continues to express GFP in dauer larvae from starved plates.

• Primary Identifier: Expr589
• Remark: Reporter gene fusion type not specified. This information was extracted from published material (Archana Sharma-Oates, Andrew Mounsey and Ian A. Hope). tba-1 is referred as a-tubulin in the article.
• Pattern: Strong expression is observed during embryogenesis. Staining is observed in the ventral nerve cord motor neurons, both neuronal cell bodies and their axonal processes along the entire ventral cord in adult animals. Expression is also detected in 6 touch receptors sensory neurons (ALML/R, PLML/R, AVM and PVM), a set 38-39 motor neurons in the ventral nerve cord along the anterior posterior body length of the animal, and a few neurons in the head and tail ganglia.

• Primary Identifier: Expr733
• Remark: This information was extracted from published material (Archana Sharma-Oates, Andrew Mounsey and Ian A. Hope).
• Pattern: Staining is seen in a set of 47 nuclei in fixed newly hatched first larval stage (L1). All stained cells are neurons. Hermaphrodite express in cells. RIH, RIR, PVR, IL2L/R, URYVL/R, RIPL/R, AIZL/R, FLPL/R, ADAL/R, RMGL/R, BPUL/R, PLML/R, ALML/R, ALNL/R, HSNL/R, URBL/R, NSML/R, URADL/R, IL2DL/R, I2L/R, IL2VL/R, URAVL/R, URXL/R, AIML/R, URYDL/R, PQR, PVM, SDQL/R, PVDL/R, PHCL/R, PLNL/R. Male cells express as in hermaphrodite except for HSNL/R which die, and show expression in CEMDL/R, CEMVL/R which die in hermaphrodites. Expression pattern is first determined in the Q lineage. Once expression has been initiated in a cell, it is maintained by that cell and all of its descendants in all cases except for SDQ.

• Primary Identifier: Expr734
• Remark: This information was extracted from published material (Archana Sharma-Oates, Andrew Mounsey and Ian A. Hope).
• Pattern: First detected in embryos at mid embryogenesis ~300 min. Larvae - adult: Expression observed in muscles and neurons, strong in body wall muscle and vulval muscle cells. Weak expression observed in anal sphincter muscle. In the nervous system expression is observed in six mechanosensory receptor neurons ALML/R, PLML/R, AVM and PVM.

6 Life Stages

Remark	Definition	Other Name	Public Name	Primary Identifier
	The whole period of embryogenesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, from the formation of an egg until hatching.		embryo Ce	WBls:0000003
	The C. elegans life stage spanning 620-800min(hatch) after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. A stage after elongation is over. The last stage of embryogenesis. Also called pre-hatched embryo, late embryo or morphogenetic embryo.		fully-elongated embryo Ce	WBls:0000021
	The C. elegans life stage spanning 350-620min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The stage that embryo starts elongation until elongation is over.		elongating embryo Ce	WBls:0000015
	The C. elegans life stage spanning 460-520min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo is elongated and double fold. A stage between 1.5-fold embryo and 3-fold embryo.		2-fold embryo Ce	WBls:0000019
	The C. elegans life stage spanning 520-620min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo is elongated and tripple fold. A stage between 2-fold embryo and fully-elongated embryo. Also called pretzel embryo or pretzel stage.		3-fold embryo Ce	WBls:0000020
	The C. elegans life stage spanning 420-460min after first cleavage at 20 Centigrade. Cell number remains at ~560 cells, with some new cells generated and some cells go through programmed cell death. The shape of embryo is elongated and fold back 50%. A stage between comma embryo and 2-fold embryo.		1.5-fold embryo Ce	WBls:0000018

3 Parents

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
cell that exists in and is part of an embryo.	embryonic cell		WBbt:0007028
embryonic cell	ABarppaapp		WBbt:0006393
Neuron class of two anterior sensory neurons that transduce touch stimuli.	ALM		WBbt:0005406