WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr8076

• Pattern: Expression was found in the excretory canal cell, tail spike, uterine seam cell, distal tip cells, intestine, ALM and PLN neurons, and nerve ring. For male worms, although ray development is affected, no GFP was detected in the mature rays, although GFP is weakly expressed in the tail spike in larval stages.
• Primary Identifier: Expr8076
• Remark: Picture: Figure 4A to G.

13 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
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
Interneuron, associated with PLM	PLNL	lineage name: TL.pppap	WBbt:0004102
Interneuron, associated with PLM	PLNR	lineage name: TR.pppap	WBbt:0004098
the most extensive region of neuropil in the animal, consists of a large toroidal bundle of processes.	nerve ring	circumpharyngeal nerve ring	WBbt:0006749
Four processes (canals) of the excretory canal cell each contain a central collecting lumen which feeds to a central lumenal canal in the cell body; the central canal forms a specialized membrane to release fluids into the excretory duct. These five canals form a continuous H-shaped channel which extends almost the full length of the body, generally in contact with the lateral hypodermis and the pseudocoelom.	excretory canal	canal	WBbt:0005775
membranous cell attaches the uterus to the lateral epidermis (seam) and forms a thin laminar process dorsal to the vulva. formed by fusion of eight pi cell progeny and AC.	uterine seam cell	utse	WBbt:0006789
Anterior lateral microtubule cell, touch receptor	ALML	lineage name: ABarppaappa	WBbt:0003954
Anterior lateral microtubule cell, touch receptor	ALMR	lineage name: ABarpppappa	WBbt:0003953
An acellular thin cuticle whip formed at the very end of the tail during embryogenesis.	tail spike		WBbt:0006979
Distal tip cell, inhibits meiosis in nearby germ cells, anterior	gon_male_dtc anterior	lineage name: Z1.a	WBbt:0005064
Distal tip cell, inhibits meiosis in nearby germ cells, posterior.	gon_male_dtc posterior	lineage name: Z4.p	WBbt:0005063

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00017644	exc-9	F20D12.5	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages