rnp-8L was detectable, but low, in the mitotic region and transition zone, which contains early meiotic prophase germ cells, and it was abundant in the pachytene region and developing oocytes, as assessed with an antisense-strand probe, but not with a sense-strand control probe. The antisense-strand probe was directed against sequence within the
q784 deletion and, as a result, did not hybridize to RNA in
rnp-8(
q784) germlines.