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Table I
Marked balancers commonly used in C. elegans
Balancer
Region covered
Marker
Phenotype
Balancers with a dominant GFP marker
hT2 [bli-4 (e937)]
I
L
III
R
[myo-2::GFP]
Pharyngeal GFP
II
C
mInI [mIs14] (
Edgley and Riddle, 2001
)
[myo-2::GFP]
Pharyngeal GFP
IV
R
V
L
nT1[qIs51](
Belfiore et al., 2002;
Cui et al., 2006
)
[myo-2::GFP]
[pes-10::GFP]
[F22B7.9::GFP]
Pharyngeal GFP
Embryonic GFP
Intestinal GFP
Balancers with a recessive lethal marker
eT1
III
L
V
R
[let-x (s2165)]
Larval arrest
I
R
hIn1 (
Zetka and Rose, 1992
)
[unc-75 (h1041)]
[unc-75 (h1042)]
Larval arrest
I
L
III
R
hT2 [bli-4 (e937)] [q782] (Jones et al., 2007a)
[let-x (q782)]
Larval arrest
II
C
mInI (
Edgley and Riddle, 2001
)
[let-552 (e2542)]
Larval arrest
IV
R
V
L
nT1
[let-x (qIs50)]
Larval arrest
Balancers with a recessive visible marker
eDp6 (
Hodgkin, 1980
)
III
L
[unc-119]
Uncoordinated
III
R
V
L
eT1 (
Rosenbluth and Baillie, 1981
)
[unc-46 (e177)]
[bli-5 (s277)]
[dpy-11 (s287)]
[dpy-18 (e364)]
[sma-2 (s262)]
[sma-3 (e491)]
Uncoordinated
Blistered
Dumpy
Small
I
R
hIn1
[unc-54 (h1040)]
[unc-101 (sy241)]
[unc-75 (h1041)]
Uncoordinated
I
L
V
L
hT1 (
McKim et al., 1988a
)
[unc-29 (e403)]
Uncoordinated
I
L
III
R
hT2 [bli-4 (e937)] (
McKim et al., 1988a
, 1993)
[dpy-5 (h659)]
[dpy-18 (h662)]
[unc-54 (e190)]
[unc-29 (h1011)]
[unc-59 (e261)]
[bli-4 (e937)]
Dumpy
Uncoordinated
Blistered
I
L
X
R
hT3 (
McKim et al., 1993
)
[dpy-5 (e61)]
Dumpy
II
C
mln1 (
Edgley and Riddle, 2001
)
[unc-4 (e120)]
[dpy-10 (e128)]
[rol-1 (e91)]
Uncoordinated
Dumpy
Roller
II
R
III
R
mT1 (
Edgley and Riddle, 2001
)
[dpy-10 (e128)]
Dumpy
IV
R
V
L
nT1 [unc-x (n754)] (
Ferguson and
Horvitz, 1985
)
[unc-x (n754)]
Uncoordinated
III
L
qC1 (
Austin and Kimble, 1989
)
[dpy-19 (e1259)]
[glp-1 (q339)]
Dumpy,
Germ Line Proliferation
Abnormal
III
L
sC1 [D. Baillie, pers. comm.]
[dpy-1 (s2170)]
Dumpy
V
R
sC4 [D. Baillie, pers. comm.)]
[dpy-28 (e428)]
[dpy-21 (e428)]
Dumpy
I
L
X
R
szT1[lon-2 (e678)] (
McKim et al., 1992
)
[lon-2 (e678)]
[unc-29 (e403)]
Long
Uncoordinated
left;
R
right;
C
center. In C. elegans, details of the generation, types, and applications of chromosomal rearrangements, which allow lethal
mutations to be maintained stably over generations, have been reviewed in the WormBook, the online review of C. elegans biology (
www.
wormbook.org
).
L
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