To study the expression pattern of innexins in the male worm, we crossed innexin reporter strains (Altun et al., 2009) with him-5(e1490) strains and analyzed GFP expression using a compound microscope. As describe in the table, innexins are expressed in different tissues and cells of the male worm. These results will be compared to the male connectome project where a lot of gap junctions have been observed in the nervous system.
Figures
Figure 1: Male specific expression is in blue color.
References
Altun ZF, Chen B, Wang ZW, Hall DH. (2009). High resolution map of Caenorhabditis elegans gap junction proteins. Dev. Dyn. 238, 1936-50.
