Cell Ablation Experiments on Nematode Male Tail Development

13.5 KB of data from laser microbeam ablation and immunofluorescent staining experiments on rhabditid nematodes, investigating developmental constraints in male tail characters. The dataset was created by Karin Kiontke and last updated on April 28, 2026. It includes analysis of tail tip morphogenesis, genital papilla number, and phasmid position across multiple species.

Use Cases

• Reconstructing ancestral states for genital papilla characters based on phylogenetic analysis of multiple species.
• Analyzing the role of cell migration in phasmid position changes using laser ablation results.
• Studying the conservation and variation in genital papilla anlagen patterning during L4 male development.
• Testing hypotheses about developmental constraints imposed by cell lineage and dorsoventral positioning systems.

Strengths

• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting reuse and redistribution.
• Analysis incorporates taxa representing deeper divergence points in the rhabditid phylogeny than previous work.
• Findings are based on specific experimental techniques: laser microbeam ablation and immunofluorescent staining.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 13.5 KB, indicating limited scope or a summary-level dataset.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Immunofluorescent staining and laser microbeam ablation experiments on nematode specimens.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 17:41:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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