Fig. 6. Body and tail tip shape defects in L1 stage smp-1 and smp-2 mutant animals. Hyp 10 split tail defects are found in mutants of smp-2 and smp-1 (compare arrows in A,B) The wild-type tail tip (A) and the morphological tail tip defect of smp-1(ev715) and smp-2(ev709) mutants (B) are shown. Wild-type body shape (C) is associated with a normal queue of lateral epidermal seam cells (E). Body shape defects in smp-1(ev715) and smp-2(ev709) (D, arrows) are associated with abnormal orientation or positioning of seam cells (F, arrows).
