WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr3963

• Pattern: PUF-8::GFP was expressed in various tissues including the pharyngeal muscles, the hypodermis, the ventral cord motor neurons and the vulval cells. Before vulval induction in L2 larvae, PUF-8::GFP was expressed in all six vulval precursor cells at equal levels. After vulval induction in early L3 larvae, PUF-8::GFP was upregulated in the descendants of the tertiary distal VPCs (P3.p, P4.p and P8.p), while expression faded in the primary and secondary descendants of the proximal VPCs (P5.p, P6.p and P7.p). In addition, PUF-8::GFP expression was detected in the VulC sublineage of the secondary cells at the Pn.pxxx stage.
• Primary Identifier: Expr3963

11 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
neuron with cell body associated with the ventral nerve cord.	ventral cord neuron	ventral cord motoneuron	WBbt:0005300
female genital.	vulva		WBbt:0006748
type of cells that make up muscle layers in the pharynx.	pharyngeal muscle cell		WBbt:0005451
Epidermal layer.	hypodermis	epidermis	WBbt:0005733
	P6.p hermaphrodite		WBbt:0008125
descendent cell of post-embryonic blast cell P5, posterior, in hermaphrodite.	P5.p hermaphrodite		WBbt:0008121
descendent cell of post-embryonic blast cell P4, posterior, in hermaphrodite.	P4.p hermaphrodite		WBbt:0008117
descendent cell of post-embryonic blast cell P3, posterior in hermaphrodite.	P3.p hermaphrodite		WBbt:0008112
	P8.p hermaphrodite		WBbt:0008133
	P7.p hermaphrodite		WBbt:0008129
adult vulval toroid cell, C, formed by fusion of precursors of lineage names P5.ppal, P5.ppar, P7.papl and P7.papr.	vulC		WBbt:0006765

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00004244	puf-8	C30G12.7	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages