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C. elegans embryos are affected by the naturally occurring sperm-delivered toxin, PEEL-1.
Embryos on the left and right have arrested at the 2-fold stage of embryogenesis due to developmental defects caused by the sperm-delivered toxin, PEEL-1. The hatched larva in the center of the image has developed normally because this animal has inherited a single copy of the antidote gene, zeel-1. (See Seidel et al., e1001115.)
Image Credit: Hannah S. Seidel
Citation: (2011) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 9(7) July 2011. PLoS Biol 9(7): ev09.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v09.i07
Published: July 26, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Siedel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Embryos on the left and right have arrested at the 2-fold stage of embryogenesis due to developmental defects caused by the sperm-delivered toxin, PEEL-1. The hatched larva in the center of the image has developed normally because this animal has inherited a single copy of the antidote gene, zeel-1. (See Seidel et al., e1001115.)
Image Credit: Hannah S. Seidel