Worm Breeder's Gazette 8(2): 10

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L1 Smoothies

C. Kenyon

The widly used CB1490 strain carryinq him-5(e1490) (isolated by J .  
Hodgkin) has very faint L1 alae.  Adult and dauer alae are normal, as 
are the lateral hypodermal lineages .  The Ali- phenotype is due to a 
linked mutation, ali-1(19B4)V located between dpy-11 and him-5.