Worm Breeder's Gazette 13(3) Table of Contents
13 3 1 Announcement of the Tenth International C. elegans
Meeting
13 3 2 Postdoctoral Positions
13 3 5 CGC Bibliographic References
Theresa Stiernagle and Bob Herman
13 3 11 The C. elegans Genome Sequencing Project: A Progress
Report
The C. elegans Genome Consortium
13 3 14 Reverse Genetics Using Transposon Tc1: A Progress
Report
Ronald H.A. Plasterk and Marianne de Vroomen
13 3 16 An ACEDB For the Macintosh User Group
Greg Beitel and H.R. Horvitz
13 3 17 Three Families of Reverse Transcriptase Elements in C.
elegans
Sean Eddy
13 3 18 The Structure of the C. elegans Genome and Implications
For Function
Tom Barnes
13 3 19 Genome Parametrics, or Look, I Can Use Query and
Tablemaker!
Tom Barnes
13 3 20 Some Notes on Mapping Contigs Using Molecular
Analysis of Deficiences
Frans Tax and Jim Thomas
13 3 21 Use of an Expression Library to Clone Genes by
Complementation
R.E. Palmer and P.W. Sternberg
13 3 22 Tc4 and Tc5: What Makes Them Move and Why It Matters
Christ Parham, Kristie Butze, Joanna Beinhorn and
John Collins
13 3 23 Interactions Between mei-1 and the unc-116 Kinesin
Paul E. Mains
13 3 24 Identification of par-1 Gene by Injecting in
vitro-transcribed anti-sense RNA
Su Guo and Kenneth Kemphues
13 3 25 Asymmetric PAR-2 at First Cleavage
Lynn Boyd, Diane Levitan and Ken Kemphues
13 3 26 PAR-3 is a Novel Maternally Encoded Protein
Bijan Etemad-Moghadam and Kenneth Kemphues
13 3 27 zu170 Defines a New Gene, par-6, and Can Act as a
Suppressor of par-2
Jennifer Watts and Ken Kemphues
13 3 28 Analysis of zyg-1, a Gene Required During the First
Embryonic Divisions and For Formation of a Functional
Vulva
Cathy Caron and Kenneth Kemphues
13 3 29 A Potential C. elegans E2F Homolog: Is it zyg-9?
Lisa Matthews and Simon Galas
13 3 30 Localization of SKN-1 Protein to Posterior Blastomere in
the Early C. elegans Embryo
Bill Maske, Silvi Lommel and Bruce Bowerman
13 3 31 A Molecular Approach to Identify skn-1-Responsive Genes
in the Early C. elegans Embryo
Stephen H. Chamberlain and Bruce Bowerman
13 3 32 The Maternal Gene skn-4 and the Specification of Ventral
Blastomere Fates in the Early C. elegans Embryo
Bruce Bowerman, Paula R. Martin, Christopher J.
Thorpe and Christopher A. Shelton
13 3 33 pes-10 RNA and Protein Are Expressed Transiently in
Each Somatic Lineage in the Pre-Gastrulation Embryo
Geraldine Seydoux and Andy Fire
13 3 34 Characterization of the let-502 Gene
Andreas Wissman, James D. McGhee and Paul E.
Mains
13 3 35 mab-3 YAC Rescue
David Zarkower, Mario de Bono and Jonathan
Hodgkin
13 3 36 Direct Interaction Between FEM-3 and a Carboxy-Terminal
Fragment of TRA-2A
Arun Mehra, Linda Heck, Patricia Kuwabara and
Andrew Spence
13 3 37 The laf-1 Gene Functions in the 3'UTR-Mediated
Translational Repression of the Sex Determination Gene,
tra-2
Elizabeth Goodwin and Judith Kimble
13 3 38 Evidence For Interactions Between the Sex Determination
and Dosage Compensation Pathways in the Germline
Patricia E. Kuwabara
13 3 39 DPY-27: A Protein Required For Dosage Compensation is
Associated With the X Chromosome in XX Animals
Pao-Tien Chuang, Donna Albertson and Barbara
Meyer
13 3 40 Somatic Regulation of Germ-line Development.
Introduction and Part I; Mitotic Proliferation
Jim McCarter and Tim Schedl
13 3 41 Part II; Non-Autonomy of Hermaphrodite Germ-line Sex
Determination
Jim McCarter and Tim Schedl
13 3 42 Part III; Oocyte Meiotic Prophase Arrest
Jim McCarter and Tim Schedl
13 3 44 Programmed Cell Death in the C. elegans Germ Line
Michael Hengartner, Erika Hartwieg and Bob Horvitz
13 3 46 DAD-1, An Evolutionarily Conserved Suppressor of
Programmed Cell Death in Vertebrates and Caenorhabditis
elegans
Asako Sugimoto, Rebecca R. Hozak, Torahiko
Nakashima, Takeharu Nishimoto and Joel H.
Rothman
13 3 47 Cytology of Degenerin-Induced Cell Death in the PVM
Neuron
David H. Hall, Guoqiang Gu, Lei Gong, Monica
Driscoll and Martin Chalfie
13 3 48 mec-12 Encodes the Acetylated alpha Tubulin TBA-3 That
Mediates Touch Sensitivity and the Formation of 15
Protofilament (pf) Microtubules in the Six T
Tetsunari Fukushige and Shahid S. Siddiqui
13 3 49 cej-1 Encodes a Novel Protein With Poly-Threonine Motif
M.L.A. Khan, M. Tabish, T. Fukushige, S. Tsukita, M.
Itoh, Sh. Tsukita and S.S. Siddiqui
13 3 50 The Annexins of C. elegans: A Novel Splice Varient May
Be Subject To Control By Phosphorylation
C.E. Creutz, S.L. Snyder and S.N. Daigle
13 3 51 What Snakes and Worms Have In Common: Disintegrins
Benjamin Podbilewicz
13 3 52 Characterization of the C. elegans Basement
Membrane-Associated Protein SPARC
Frederique Musset-Bilal, Carol S. Ryan and Jean E.
Schwarzbauer
13 3 53 Cloning mua-3: Some Observations on the New Molecular
Era
John Plenefisch and Edward Hedgecock
13 3 54 Identification of Sequence Alterations in unc-52 Mutants
and Revertants
Teresa M. Rogalski, Erin J. Gilchrist and Donald G.
Moerman
13 3 56 Two Tropomyosins Expressed in Body Wall and the Third
Did In Pharynx of Caenorhabditis elegans
H. Imadzu, Y. Sakube and H. Kagawa
13 3 57 Function of a Domain of the Myosin Heavy Chain
Implicated in Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Craig A. Almeida, Kerry E. Swift and John J. Collins
13 3 58 Molecular Analysis of unc-103
Tomoyuki Uekusa, Kiyoji Nishiwaki, Masaatsu K.
Uchida and Johji Miwa
13 3 59 mab-5 Expression Repeatedly Switches ON and OFF in the
V5 Lineage
S. Salser and C. Kenyon
13 3 60 Activity of the polyray-1 Maintenance Gene Must Be
Overcome To Allow For Correct Temporal Expression of
HOM-C Genes
Julin Maloof and Cynthia Kenyon
13 3 61 A polyray Suppressor
Julin Maloof and Cynthia Kenyon
13 3 62 The Effects of Homeotic Genes on vit-lacZ Expression
Peg MacMorris and Tom Blumenthal
13 3 63 Expression Studies of the Putative Caenorhabditis elegans
cyclin A and B Genes
Monique A. Kreutzer, James P. Richards and Karen
L. Bennett
13 3 64 Molecular Characterization of sma-2
Cathy Savage, Scott Townsend, Alyce L. Finelli and
Richard W. Padgett
13 3 65 daf-28(sa191) Defines a New Step in the Dauer Epistasis
Pathway
Elizabeth A. Malone and James H. Thomas
13 3 66 Suppressors of daf-11 Identify New daf-d Genes
Wendy Schackwitz and James H. Thomas
13 3 67 Toward Molecular Cloning of tax-4, a Gene Necessary For
Both Thermo- and Chemotactic Response of C. elegans
Hidetoshi Komatsu, Ikue Mori and Yasumi Ohshima
13 3 68 Analysis of the Neuarl Curcuit Regulating Thermotactic
Responses of C. elegans
Ikue Mori and Yasumi Ohshima
13 3 69 The C. elegans pgp-3 Gene Is Involved In Resistance To
the Drugs Chloroquine and Colchicine
A. Broeks and R.H.A. Plasterk
13 3 70 Mutations Affecting Amphid Structure Impart Ivermectin
Resistance
Carl Johnson, Peter Hunt and Warwick Grant
13 3 72 Dominant Ivermectin Resistance Mutations
Peter Hunt, Warwick Grant and Carl Johnson
13 3 74 The Men's Room: Evidence That GABA Acts as an
Inhibitory Neurotransmitter For the Male Sphincter Muscle
David J. Reiner and James H. Thomas
13 3 76 The Behavioral Response of C. elegans to Volatile
Anesthetics
Mike Crowder and Tim Schedl
13 3 77 The unc-8 Suppressor Locus sup-40 Regulates Ion Channel
Function in Motorneurons, Hypodermis and Developing
Oocytes
Wayne Shreffler, Mei Hsu and Eve Wolinsky
13 3 78 Molecular Cloning and Genomic Mapping of a Calcium
Channal alpha1 subunit
Eleanor Mathews and Terry P. Snutch
13 3 79 A Calcium Channel Required For Adaptation to Dopamine
William R. Schafer and Cynthia Kenyon
13 3 80 An Axon That Says "Yes" To Drugs
Bruce Wightman and Gian Garriga
13 3 81 The unc-40 Axon Guidance Gene Encodes a
Transmembrane Receptor With Extracellular Fibronectin
and Immunoglobulin Domains
Shirley Chan, Ming-Wan Su, Hong Zhang, Joe Culotti
and Ed Hedgecock
13 3 82 Suppressors of unc-5-Induced Reorientation of the Touch
Receptor Axons
Antonio Colavita and Joe Culotti
13 3 83 Two Mutations That Perturb Cell Attachments
Carolyn Norris and Edward Hedgecock
13 3 84 mig-5, A Gene Required For Both Cell Migration and Cell
Fate Determination
Chaobo Guo and Edward Hedgecock
13 3 85 daf-12(=mig-7) Mutations Cause Heterochronic Delays in
Cell Migration and Cell Lineage, and Perturb Dauer
Formation
Adam Antebi and Ed Hedgecock
13 3 86 Mutations Causing Cysts in the Excretory Canals
Matthew Buechner and Ed Hedgecock
13 3 87 hch-1 Rescued
Ryuichi Hishida, Takeshi Ishihara, Kazunori Kondo
and Isao Katsura
13 3 88 vab-8 Rescued: Another Gene Involved In Controlling Cell
Polarity?
Ming-Shiu Hung and Jeffrey C. Way
13 3 89 unc-107/vab-8 Mutants Are Defective in Posterior-Directed
Axonal Outgrowth and Cell Migration
Bruce Wightman, Scott Clark, Anna Taskar, Wayne
Forrester, Villu Maricq, Jen Zallen, Cori Bargmann
and Gian Garriga
13 3 90 Asymmetric Expression of mec-3
Lili Wang and Jeffrey C. Way
13 3 91 The Expression Pattern of a Cdc42-lacZ Fusion
Rob van Weeghel, Ming-Shiu Hung, Jin-Quan Run,
Joe Culloti and Jeff Way
13 3 92 Functions of vab-3 and lin-17 in the Male B Lineage
Helen M. Chamberlin and Paul W. Sternberg
13 3 94 lin-44 Encodes a Wnt Protein
Michael A. Herman, Jocelyn E. Shaw, Larissa L.
Vassilieva and Robert K. Herman
13 3 95 wnt Homologs in Caenorhabditis elegans
Supriya Shivakumer, Gregg Jongeward, Cynthia
Kenyon and Harold Varmus
13 3 96 Molecular Analysis of lin-19 (A Member of a Novel Gene
Family) & lin-23 (Encoding a Protein with B-Transducin
Repeats and a Xenopus Ortholog)
Edward T. Kipreos and Edward M. Hedgecock
13 3 97 Identification of An Egg-Laying Defective Mutant With An
Abnormal Contact Between the Anchor Cell and the
Vulval Precursor Cells
R.E. Palmer, K. Tietze and P.W. Sternberg
13 3 98 K252a Compound Induced Multiple Anchor Cells in N2
Hermaphrodites
Mitsunobu Hara and Min Han
13 3 99 Isolation and Analysis of lin-3 Suppressors
Jing Liu and Paul W. Sternberg
13 3 100 Induction of the Uterine Fate By the Anchor Cell Results
in lin-11-lacZ Expression and Requires egl-29
Anna P. Newman and Paul W. Sternberg
13 3 101 lin-1 Vul and Let Alleles: Gain or Reduction-Of-Function
Mutations?
Greg Beitel and Bob Horvitz
13 3 102 Searching For Downstream Genes in the Vulval Induction
Pathway
Andy Golden and Paul W. Sternberg
13 3 103 Molecular Genetic Analysis of the sur-2 Gene Defined By
Suppressors of a Gain Of Function let-60 ras Allele
Natasha Singh, John Yochem and Min Han
13 3 104 Roles of let-60 ras and sur-3 in Vulval Development and
Sex Myoblast Migration
Meera Sundaram and Min Han
13 3 105 let-60 ras Involvement in egl-15-Mediated Processes
Michael J. Stern and Estella Chen
13 3 106 Molecular Analysis of clr-1, A Negative Regulator of the
FGFR in C. elegans
Michelle Kokel, Leslie DeLong and Michael J. Stern
13 3 107 Evolution of Vulva Formation: Part III: Minimizing the
Equivalence Group
Ralf J. Sommer and Paul W. Sternberg
13 3 108 New Hermaphroditic Species of Oscheius (Andrassy, 1976)
(Rhabditidae, Nematoda)
Lynn Carta, Kelly Thomas and Paul Sternberg
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