WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr9804

• Pattern: GFP was observed in a few nuclei in the posterior pharyngeal bulb and a few neuronal nuclei to both sides of the posterior pharyngeal bulb. GFP expression in the head does not look as extensive as in other nhr-66 reporter gene fusions constructed in this series (see UL3507, UL3411 and UL3531). Occasionally, GFP was seen in an unidentified cell in the tail and in intestinal nuclei. However, the expression was extremely faint, much weaker than for the reporter gene fusions made specifically for the other 2 transcripts, nhr-66a and nhr-66b.
• Primary Identifier: Expr9804

4 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
A chain of very large cuboidal cells forming a wide central lumen in which food arrives from the posterior pharynx, is digested, and from which waste products proceed to the rectum. Intestinal rings form in groups of two and four cells surrounding the common lumen; thus the epithelium is only one cell deep at any point, with neighboring cells firmly secured to their neighbors by apical adherens junctions. These cells have very large nuclei and many large vacuoles, yolk granules, and other inclusions; the latter increase in number and electron density as the animal ages.	intestine	gut	WBbt:0005772
neuron with its cell body situated in the head, excluding the pharynx.	head neuron		WBbt:0006751
posterior region, from rectum to the end	tail		WBbt:0005741
the last, posterior bulb of the pharynx.	terminal bulb		WBbt:0003732

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00003656	nhr-66	T09A12.4	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages