Table 1 |
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Strains used, their geographic location of origin or mutation and relevant notes* |
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Type |
Strain |
Origin |
Notes |
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Wild Isolates |
AB1 |
Adelaide, Australia |
no plug, 'large-sperm' category |
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CB4855 |
Stanford, USA |
plug, 'large-sperm' category |
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CB4856 |
Hawaii, USA |
plug, 'large-sperm' category |
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DR1350 |
Pasadena, USA |
plug, 'small-sperm' category |
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JU440 |
France |
no plug, 'small-sperm' category |
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MY2 |
Germany |
no plug, 'small-sperm' category |
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Experimental Mutants |
JK574 |
fog-2(q71) mutation in an N2 genetic background |
Populations 50% male + 50% "female" |
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PD4790 |
contains transgene mls12 [myo-2::GFP, pes-10::GFP, F22B7.9::GFP] in an N2 genetic background |
N2 background with pharyngeal GFP marker, no plug, 'small-sperm' category |
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*Strains grouped into sperm size categories based on the results of Tukey HSD test where 'small-sperm' strains were not significantly different from one another. |
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Murray et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:99 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-99 |
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