Worm Breeder's Gazette 14(2): 0a (February 1, 1996)
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Announcements and News 1996 East Coast C. elegans Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1996 European Worm Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 West Coast Worm Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Midwest C. elegans Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Classic Reprints Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 C. elegans II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Methods in Cell Science - Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . .8 Jeff Way and Diane Shakes Positions Available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
CGC Bibliographic References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Theresa Stiernagle and Bob Herman
Access to Expertise in the Worm Community Via ACeDB . . . . . . . . 19
Sylvia D. Martinelli
The C. elegans Genome Sequencing Project: A Progress Report . . . . 20
The C. elegans Genome Consortium
ACE.MBLY, a Graphic Program for Wild Type and Mutant
Sequence Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Danielle et Jean Thierry-Mieg and Ulrich Sauvage
A Cosmid Transgenic Library for C. elegans - An Update . . . . . . 23
Diana L. Janke, Jacqueline E. Schein, Nigel J. O'Neil,
Norman W. Franz, David L. Baillie and Ann M. Rose
mut-7, a New Mutator Allele Isolated in a Non-Mutator Strain . . . . . 24
Ren! F. Ketting, Miriam Th. Smits and Ronald H.A. Plasterk
Tc7, a New Family of Transposable Elements in C. elegans . . . . . 25
Rene Rezsohazy, Richard Durbin and Ronald H.A. Plasterk
THE CAT SSA TON AMA T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tom Barnes and Siegfried Hekimi
Daring Rescue! Corruption! In... Clonewatch . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Tom Barnes, Julia Pak, Athena Vouloumanos
and Siegfried Hekimi
eDf2 Is Not a Terminal Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Morris Maduro and David Pilgrim
Deletions Targeted on unc-101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Jeong-Yau Ho, Mark Edgley and Ann Rose
The Control of Body Size. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Armand M. Leroi and Scott W. Emmons
Operons Are Not Restricted to Caenorhabditis . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Diego Zorio, Donnie Evans, Kristi Lea
and Tom Blumenthal
Immune Defense of Nematodes: ASABF, an Antibacterial
Protein Isolated from a Nematode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Yusuke Kato
An Attempt to Slow Aging in C. elegans. 3. The Effect of
Extract from Young Worms During Postreproductive Period . . . . . . .33
Vladimir V. Bakaev
Oxidative Stress and Aging in the daf Mutants . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Shuji Honda and Yoko Honda
unc-31 and aex-3 Are a New Class of Daf-c Genes . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Kouichi Iwasaki and James H. Thomas
Expression of DAF-7 in Chemosensory Neurons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Peifeng Ren, Patrice S. Albert and Donald L. Riddle
daf-8: A Giant Among DWARFINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Annette O.Z. Estevez and Donald L. Riddle
Looking for Other Roles in Development for TGF-B Pathway Components . 38
Cathy Savage, Scott R. Townsend,
Huang Wang and Richard W. Padgett
A Small Mutant Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40
Cathy Savage, Yi-Ming Wu, Marsha Smith
and Richard W. Padgett
More Expression and Overexpression of a C. elegans
TGF-B Homologue, dbl-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Mark Yandell, Robert Ross, Yo Suzuki and Bill Wood
The Giant Dwarfin Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Pradeep Das and Richard W. Padgett
tig-1, tig-2: Novel TGF-B Homologs in C. elegans . . . . . . . . . . 44
Srikant Krishna and Richard W. Padgett
A tre-1 in a Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Srikant Krishna and Richard W. Padgett
tollish Genes in C. elegans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Alyce L. Finelli, Cathy Savage, Seo-Hee Cho
and Richard W. Padgett
hch-1 Encodes a Zn Protease of the tolliod/BMP-1 Family . . . . . . . 47
Ryuichi Hishida, Takeshi Ishihara,
Kazunori Kondo and Isao Katsura
ceh-2 Encodes a Homologue of Drosophila empty-spiracles (ems) . . . 48
Gudrun Asp!ck, Thomas R. B!rglin and Gary Ruvkun
ceh-21 Is a Funny Cut Class Homeobox Gene in a Cluster . . . . . . .. 49
Giuseppe Cassata, Thomas R. B!rglin and Gary Ruvkun
ceh-26, a Putative prospero (pros) Homologue . . . . . . . . . . .. . 50
Ren! F. Pr!t!t and Thomas R. B!rglin
Formation of Endomitotic Oocytes and Haploid Embryos in
ceh-18 Mutants . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
David Greenstein
Germ Cells May Modulate the Smooth Muscle Activity of the
Somatic Gonad for Ovulation in C. elegans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Jim McCarter, Bart Bartlett, Thanh Dang and Tim Schedl
Deciphering the Function and Expression Pattern of FEM-2 . . . . .. . 54
Dave Hansen, Petra J!ckle-Baldwin and Dave Pilgrim
tra-1 Is Still Epistatic to tra-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Jonathan Hodgkin
laf-1 and Translational Repression of tra-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Elizabeth Goodwin and Judith Kimble
mab-22 May Be a Gene Required for Ray Extension in the Male Tail . . 58
Marie E. Sutherlin, David H. Hall and Scott W. Emmons
egl-38 Is an Essential Gene Required for Normal Development of
Both the Hermaphrodite Egg-Laying System and Male Rectal Epithelium . .60
Helen M. Chamberlin, Robert E. Palmer, Anna P. Newman,
Paul W. Sternberg, David L. Baillie and James H. Thomas
Molecular Lesions of lin-3 Mutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Jing Liu, Russell Hill and Paul Sternberg
Genetic Interactions Between sli-1 and let-60 ras . . . . . . . .. . 64
Charles H. Yoon and Paul W. Sternberg
Intercellular Interactions and 2! Vulval Lineage Polarity . . . . .. 65
Wendy S. Katz, Thomas R. Clandinin and Paul W. Sternberg
Two-Stage Induction of the Vulva in Panagrolaimus and Oscheius . . . 66
Marie-Anne F!lix and Paul W. Sternberg
HOM-C Genes and Vulval Fate Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Thomas R. Clandinin, Wendy S. Katz and Paul W. Sternberg
Morphogenesis of the Hermaphrodite Uterus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anna P. Newman, John G. White and Paul W. Sternberg
lin-11 Is Necessary for Uterine Development . . . . . . . . . . . .. 70
Anna P. Newman and Paul W. Sternberg
Homosexual Behavior Among Australian Males . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
David Gems and Don Riddle
Activated mek-1 Suppresses Pharyngeal Muscle Excitation . . . . . . . 72
Makoto Koga, Leon Avery, Kun-Liang Guan and Yasumi Ohshima
Characterization of a C. elegans Homologue of the
S. cerevisiae Gene STE20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Sharon Sokol and Jeff Way
Protein Kinase C Isoforms in Caenorhabditis elegans . . . . . . . . . 74
Yo Tabuse, Toshie Miyamoto and Johji Miwa
Identification of a SAPK/JNK Homolog and Its
Activator MAPKKs in C. elegans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Naoki Hisamoto, Masato Kawasaki, Kenji Irie,
Yuichi Iino and Kunihiro Matsumoto
mRNA Expression Patterns of a Cell Cycle Regulator CDC25 in Embryos.. 76
Mark A. Wilson, Renee V. Hoch and Andy Golden
mRNA Expression Patterns of a Cell Cycle Regulator WEE1 in Embryos. . 77
Renee V. Hoch, Mark A. Wilson and Andy Golden
Temperature Sensitive Sterile Uncoordinated Mutants Define Genes
Required for Cell Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Kevin F. O'Connell, Charles M. Leys and John G. White
emb-8 Mislocalizes Glp-1 and P-Granules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
M.L.A. Khan and Shahid S. Siddiqui
dv52: A New Neuronal Unc? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Shale Dames and Chris Link
unc-4 Regulates Neurotransmitter (FMRFamide-like) Expression in
VC Motor Neurons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Karin Schinkmann, Kyle Butkiewics, Chris Li, Mike Nonet,
Nikla Emambokus and David Miller
pag-3 Encodes a Zinc Finger Protein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Yiwen Jia, Guofeng Xie, Joan McDermott and Eric Aamodt
sma-1 Is Required for Morphogenesis of the C. elegans Embryo . . . . 83
Caroline McKeown, Alpa Patel, Vida Praitis and Judith Austin
Progress on unc-116, Which Encodes Kinesin Heavy Chain . . . . . . . 84
Karine Naert and Danielle Thierry-Mieg
An FGF Gene in the Worm? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
R!gine Roubin, Danielle Thierry-Mieg and Daniel Birnbaum
Here is HIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Christine Scamps, Danielle Thierry-Mieg and Marc Lipinski
Cloning and Characterization of a Novel RNA-Binding
Protein from C. elegans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Gavin G. Pickett, Donald E. Tsai and Jack D. Keene
Cloning of the Rad51 Gene in C. elegans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Vincenzo Rocco, Arianna De Martino, Sara Ederle,
Marco Valenzi and Adriana La Volpe
The Degenerin Gene Family Is Also Expanding... . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Nektarios Tavernarakis, Jian Xue and Monica Driscoll
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91