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Table 1 The effect of mating for folt-1 knockout hermaphrodites and males.

From: Knockout of the folate transporter folt-1 causes germline and somatic defects in C. elegans

Cross progeny production after mating

Hermaphrodite genotype

Male genotype

Male:Herm. Ratio

Mean no. progeny

SEM

N

folt-1

N2

4:1

0

0.0

14

fer-1

folt-1; him-14

4:1

65.9

27.0

11

fer-1

folt-1; him-14

1:10

15.9

10.9

15

fer-1

him-14

1:10

49.8

12.6

15

  1. The him-14(it144)II mutation was used to obtain males with the folt-1(ok1460) knockout mutation. Unmated hermaphrodites that are him-14 mutants produce male progeny [59].