We urge you to explicitly state strains used in your experiments to foster reproducibility and to help WormBase biocurators get your results into WormBase.
 Historically, C. elegans researchers just stated the alleles used, based on the reasonable idea that all strains were close to Brennerâs N2. As the years and hundreds of worm generations passed, strains diverged. We usually donât know the full genotype of our strains (and really wonât even with whole genome sequencing since copy number variation is often hard to detect). Including strain names will greatly help sort out any background effects that are realized later.
 We thus would like to see editors and reviewers (both anonymous and within the laboratory) help enforce the inclusion of strain names in C. elegans papers.
-Paul Sternberg
Would also be nice to document which N2 strain was used, the ‘N2’ line from the CGC which carries a mutation in alh-2, or the ‘N2 male’ which does not.