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Here you can view and download thousands of unpublished electron micrographs and associated data.

Please search the WormImage database for tissues of interest for wild type adult hermaphrodites, embryos, larvae, dauers, males and for a limited number of mutants.



Sex	hermaphrodite male	Genotype	wild type mutant

Age	select all unselect all embryo L1 larva L2 larva dauer L3 larva L4 larva young adult adult	Body Portion	select all unselect all head neck midbody tail

Tissue Type	[+] Alimentary 1st bulb 2nd bulb arcade buccal cavity cuticle dauer cuticle flaps grinder intestine isthmus marginal cell pharyngeal epithelium pharyngeal gland pharyngeal muscle pharyngeal valve pharynx procorpus rectal epithelium rectal gland rectal valve rectum sieve [+] Early embryo blast cells [+] Epithelial alae body cuticle cuticle dauer cuticle gubernaculum hypodermis lateral hypodermis lip cuticle lip sensilla lips rectum seam shedding L2 cuticle spicule tail tip vulval cuticle [+] Excretory canal cell duct gland pore [+] Male tail cloaca cloaca epithelium cloacal ganglion cloacal valve cuticle diagonal muscle dilator muscle fan gubernaculum hook specific muscle post cloacal sensilla proctodeum ray spicules vas deferens [+] Motor alae anal depressor muscle anal sphincter muscle bodywall muscle GLR cells head mesodermal cell head muscle muscle blast cell neck muscle sex muscle stomatointestinal muscle [+] Nervous amphid amphid commissure amphid nerve amphid sensilla anterior deirid sensilla anterior ganglion cephalic sensilla cloacal ganglion commissure deirid dorsal cord dorsal ganglion dorsorectal ganglion hook inner labial sensilla lateral ganglion lateral nerve lumbar commissure lumbar ganglion nerve ring neuroblast neuron outer labial sensilla pharyngeal nerve phasmid phasmid sensilla post cloacal sensilla posterior deirid sensilla preanal ganglion retrovesicular ganglion synapse touch cell touch dendrite ventral cord ventral ganglion [+] other Apoptotic cell Blast cell Chromatin Early embryo Excretory Intercellular junction Male tail [+] Pseudocoelom coelomocyte pseudocoelom [+] Reproductive anchor cell blast cell core cell distal tip cell embryo germ cell precursors germ cells germline germline blast cell gonad gonad precursors gonad primordium gonad sheath internal hatchee oocyte rachis sex muscle precursors somatic gonad precursor specialized muscle sperm spermatheca spermathecal valve spermatocyte uterine epithelium uterine muscle uterus vas deferens vulva vulva precursors vulval epithelium vulval muscle