- accumulated germline cell corpses
Animals exhibit an increase in the quantity of germ line cells that have undergone programmed cell death but have not been engulfed.
- accumulated somatic cell corpses
Animals exhibit an increase in the quantity of non-germ line cells that have undergone programmed cell death but have not been engulfed.
- proximal germ cell proliferation variant
Any variation in the spatial pattern of proliferation and differentiation in the germ line compared to control. In C. elegans, this refers to an ectopic mass of proliferating germ cells that occupies the proximal adult germ line, a region normally occupied by gametes.
- masculinization of germline
The germ line is sexually transformed from hermaphrodite to male. In C. elegans, XX mog animals are somatically hermaphrodite, but germ cells that normally would become oocytes are transformed into sperm.
- maternal effect sterile
Sterility caused by aberrant maternal components required for normal postembryonic development and/or function of the germ line.