Cessation of development that normally occurs in C. elegans 460-520 min after the first cleavage at 20C, the stage between the 1.5-fold and 3-fold embryo.
Animals exhibit a decrease in the regulated breakdown of mRNA transcripts in which an amino-acid codon has changed to a premature stop codon and the 3 prime end is not protected by a poly(A) tail.
Premature lethality during the adult stage. When applied to large-scale RNAi screens in C. elegans, this phenotype is present in at least 10% of analyzed worms, or at least 30% in the case of rrf-3 perturbed background.
Animals die during the final stages of embryogenesis. In C. elegans, this lethality refers to death during the last (3-fold) stage of embryogenesis, which normally occurs 620-800 min after the first cleavage at 20C, the stage after elongation.
Any variation in the structure or appearance of the cells that form a narrow passage connecting the posterior bulb of the pharynx to the anterior intestine compared to control. In C. elegans this valve is composed of 3 pairs of cells each forming a flattened disc-like ring and is lined by a layer of cuticle (Wormatlas).