flam, lincRNA.1041, XLOC_024457, COM
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Transcripts flam-RA through flam-RJ characterized by 5' RACE, but 3' ends have not been determined (FBrf0224576).
Gene model reviewed during 6.02
Gene is a putative piRNA precursor.
Evidence exists for additional alternatively spliced transcripts (FBrf0224576); additional unannotated transcripts may have noncanonical splices.
Gene model supported by FBrf0224576.
Gene model reviewed during 6.03
lncRNA ; SO:0001877
Corresponds to XLOC_024457 (FBrf0240702).
Gene model reviewed during 6.32
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Source for identity of: lncRNA:flam flam
Source for merge of: flam CR46037
"DIP1" does not correspond to the "flam" locus.
New annotation (CR46037) in release 6.02 of the genome annotation.
See sequence feature piRNA_cluster_flamenco.
The proportion of normally copulating males is reduced in flam mutants compared to wild type. This reduction is due to changes in male behaviour. The proportion of males that perform consecutive courtship stages is significantly lower than in wild type. The sequence and duration of some courtship stages (in particular, orientation and wing vibration) is altered in mutant flies.
Cell lines carrying the permissive flam1 allele accumulate many nuclear virus-like particles, cytoplasmic dense particles and cisternae filled with fibrous material. Two of three such cell lines have an increased copy number of the gypsy element.
The expression of gypsy encoded proteins is analysed to explore how gypsy is transmitted between generations. Assembly of gypsy particles is visualised in the follicle cells of flam females by electron microscopy, these observations provide the basis for a novel model to explain how gypsy is transmitted from generation to generation. gypsy virions appear to move through the perivitelline space during a brief developmental window and infect the oocyte, providing a mechanism to explain gypsy insertion in the next generation.
gypsy can be transmitted from flam strains in which it transposes to strains devoid of functional elements by egg plasm transfer or growing "empty" larvae in the presence of homogenized pupae of the flam stock. Transposition of gypsy occurs only in the progeny of females homozygous for permissive alleles of flam, where gypsy transcripts are restricted to the somatic follicle cells in the ovaries. Infectious particles which then infect the oocyte are apparently produced in these cells.
Production of the gypsy\env message and corresponding protein is strongly repressed by one copy of the non-permissive allele of flam, flamN. A less dramatic reduction in the accumulation of other transcripts and retrotranscripts is also observed. These effects correlate with the inhibition of gypsy transposition in the progeny of these females and is likely to be responsible for this phenomenon. The effects of flam on gypsy\env expression are restricted to the somatic follicle cells that surround the maternal germline.