WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr4593

• Pattern: Transgenic animals expressing GFP under the control of the zfp-2 promoter showed fluorescence in vulval cells and all somatic gonad structures such as spermatheca, sheath cells, uterine cells and distal tip cells (DTCs).
• Primary Identifier: Expr4593

6 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
an accordion-like tube that contains sperm and is the site of oocyte fertilization.	spermatheca		WBbt:0005319
female genital.	vulva		WBbt:0006748
Anterior distal tip cell, inhibit meiosis in neighbouring germ cells, lead gonad during morphogenesis, herm gonad	anterior distal tip cell	gon herm dtc A	WBbt:0004520
Posterior distal tip cell, inhibit meiosis in neighbouring germ cells, lead gonad during morphogenesis, herm gonad	posterior distal tip cell	gon herm dtc P	WBbt:0004506
five pairs of thin gonadal sheath cells form a single layer covering the germ line component of each arm, each pair occupying a stereotyped position along the gonad proximal-distal axis.	gonadal sheath cell		WBbt:0005828
toroidal epithelial cell that make up the bulk of the uterus, four cells anterior and four cells posterior to the vulva.	uterine toroidal epithelial cell	ut cell	WBbt:0006784

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00009448	zfp-2	F35H8.3	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages