WormMine: ExpressionPattern Expr14598

• Pattern: When these minigenes were ubiquitously expressed, only a small number of body wall muscle cells at the head predominantly expressed E7a-mCherry, whereas the other tissues expressed E7b-EGFP. To determine the E7a/E7b selections more clearly in the body wall muscle cells, these minigenes were expressed under the control of the myo-3 promoter, which is active in all body wall muscle cells (Okkema et al., 1993). These muscle-specific reporters showed that the two most anterior muscle cells in each muscle quadrant strongly expressed E7a-mCherry but only weakly expressed E7b-EGFP. The rest of the body wall muscle cells and vulval muscle cells predominantly expressed E7b-EGFP. These cells also weakly expressed E7a-mCherry.
• Primary Identifier: Expr14598

3 Anatomy Terms

Definition	Name	Synonym	Primary Identifier
Longitudinal bands of muscle cells surrounding animal body, with one band running in each quadrant of the body, regulated contraction and relaxation of these muscles cause locomotion.	body wall musculature	body muscle	WBbt:0005813
muscle associated with hermaphrodite vulva.	vulval muscle		WBbt:0005821
body wall muscle in the head, including first eight cells of each muscle quadrants which are innervated by nerve ring neurons.	head muscle	head body wall muscle	WBbt:0006761

1 Genes

WormBase Gene ID	Gene Name	Sequence Name	Organism
WBGene00002978	lev-11	Y105E8B.1	Caenorhabditis elegans

0 Life Stages