FB2025_01 , released February 20, 2025
Allele: Dmel\biomb-1
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General Information
Symbol
Dmel\biomb-1
Species
D. melanogaster
Name
FlyBase ID
FBal0001122
Feature type
allele
Associated gene
Associated Insertion(s)
Carried in Construct
Also Known As
ombH31, ombbi
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Nature of the Allele
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Cytology
Description

40kb of regulatory DNA, downstream from the transcription unit, are removed from the bi gene.

Deletion of sequences proximal to +30kb.

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Phenotypic Data
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Hemizygous males show fusion of veins at the base of the wing and a small amount of notching at the wing tip.

biomb-1/Y flies show a small notching of the wing tip in less than 10% of cases. A cluster of dying cells appears in the primordial wing tip in the late third larval instar biomb-1/Y wing disc.

Disruption of visual input can unmask CaMKII-dependent memory formation. Locomotor activity shows no defects in white or dim red light.

Proximal fusion of all longitudinal veins and variable defects at the tip of the wing. These defects become more severe over null mutations and are dominantly enhanced by mutations in ap and dpp. Impaired in the large field optomotor response in flight and walking.

Reduction in fibre number in the anterior optic tracts.

Normal external morphology but with discrete defects in optic lobes and behaviour. Reduction in wing size and increase in tergite pigmentation.

Flies have an increased reflectance on the wing surface, indicative of the lac phenotype. The lac phenotype is caused by position effect or second site mutation rather than directly at the breakpoint.

ERG defect, slow return of the potential to base light at light off.

The optomotor yaw response is reduced to 12% of the wild-type response. The lobula plate is reduced in thickness. The giant VS- and HS-cells are present but are reduced in size. The distribution of metabolic activity (measured by 3H-deoxyglucose autoradiography) in the optic lobes does not differ substantially from wild-type.

Mushroom bodies have normal size and shape. Normal olfactory learning. Structural defects are restricted to visual system.

Defects in the lobula plate giant neurones of the visual system.

Adults impaired in optomotor turning responses in tests involving tethered or freely moving flies (FBrf0032046; FBrf0038345; FBrf0048204; FBrf0050160). The mutant is also aberrant in orientation to vertical stripe (FBrf0032046). More detailed examination of 'yaw torque' optomotor responses show that mutant is restricted in responses to stimulation of 'frontal visual field', with mutant behavior summarized as retaining 'object responses' but missing 'large field responses' (FBrf0044893). The mutant is relatively normal in 'lift/thrust' response to vertical pattern movement and in regard to landing response elicited by front-to-back horizontal motion. Slow phototaxis, using Y-tube, was markedly subnormal (FBrf0050160). Mutants show anomalous avoidance reaction, i.e., 'antifixation' to objects in Y-maze test (FBrf0063339); courting males exhibit diminished tracking responses of and turning responses to moving females (FBrf0034187; FBrf0037487). Visual stimulus-induced metabolic activity in the optic lobes

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biomb-1 has visible | recessive phenotype, enhanceable by pucE69/puc[+]

biomb-1 has visible | recessive phenotype, enhanceable by hep[+]/hepCA

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biomb-1 has wing phenotype, enhanceable by pucE69/puc[+]

biomb-1 has wing phenotype, enhanceable by hep[+]/hepCA

biomb-1 has wing disc phenotype, enhanceable by wg[+]/wgl-16

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biomb-1, pucE69 has wing phenotype, suppressible by fu1

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biomb-1/biomb-1 is an enhancer of wing vein L5 phenotype of ab1

biomb-1/bi[+] is an enhancer of wing vein L5 phenotype of ab1

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Wing vein L5 is distally truncated in the wings of ab1/+; biomb-1/+ flies, but not in those of either single heterozygote. In addition, biomb-1/+ enhances the distal truncation of L5 seen in ab1 homozygotes.

biomb-1, pucE69 double heterozygotes exhibit a strong wing notch and cell death increase phenotype. These phenotypes are suppressed by the addition of fu1.

The wing notching phenotype of biomb-1/Y flies is significantly enhanced by a single copy of pucE69 or hepCA, and in the case of hepCA a wide region of the wing blade is lost, leaving only the base of the wing. The appearance of this apoptotic cluster in the primordial wing tip of late third larval instar biomb-1/Y wing discs is more apparent if the larvae are also heterozygous for wgl-16.

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Flies will avoid the visual object within the Y-maze.

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