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Table 1 Tissue specificity in IgCAM expression

From: IgCAMs redundantly control axon navigation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Gene

Epidermis

Muscle

Gastro-intestinal system

Reproductive system

Nervous system

Other

syg-1

 

Head muscle, vulva muscle

  

See Table 2

 

syg-2

Vulva epithelium

Body wall muscle, vulva muscle

  

See Table 2

 

wrk-1

  

Gut (embryo, early larval stages)

Distal tip cell

See Table 2

Coelomocytes, arcade cells

ncam-1a/b

  

Gut (embryo)

 

See Table 2

GLR cells

ncam-1c

  

Pharynx

 

See Table 2

GLR cells

rig-1

Hypodermis

 

Pharyngeal muscle

 

See Table 2

Amphid socket

rig-3

-

-

-

-

See Table 2

Amphid sheath cells

rig-4

Seam cells, vulva epithelium (weak)

 

Gut, pharyngeal muscle

Uterine valve cells

See Table 2

Excretory cell

rig-5a/b

-

-

Gut

-

See Table 2

-

rig-5 intron

-

-

g1 glands

-

See Table 2

-

rig-6a

Rectal epithelium

Body wall muscle, vulva muscle

 

Spermetheka

See Table 2

Excretory cell

igcm-1

Seam cells

 

Pharyngeal marginal and muscle cells

 

Labial sensory, CAN, phasmid sheath, a few head neurons

Arcade cells

igcm-2

Hypodermis (weak)

 

Gut

Gonad

A few head neurons

 

igcm-3

Major hypodermis, vulva and rectal epithelium, seam cells

 

Pharyngeal muscle

Spermatheka

 

Arcade cells