Nucleotide substitution: C7434T. Amino acid replacement: R548C. Mutation is close to the second RRM repeat.
Point mutation in a charged region at the 3' end of the nonA open reading frame.
C16365216T
C7434T
R548C | nonA-PA; R548C | nonA-PB; R548C | nonA-PC; R548C | nonA-PD
R548C
Mutant males turn at random in an optomotor response assay. Male courtship songs have a long tail in CPP (cycles per pulse) frequency distribution but their modal value is 2.
Mutants have an abnormal optomotor response. Mutant flies have an abnormal ERG which lacks the transient light-on and light-off components. The average cycles per pulse (CPP) value for the very first pulse of the song burst is significantly higher in mutant males than in control males.
Males exhibit a courtship song abnormality. Males and females exhibit a defect in their ERGs, an absence of light-on and light-off transient spikes.
Mutant courtship song, optomotor blindness, ERG deficit and decrease in viability.
Optomotor blind and sing with an aberrant, polycyclic courtship song.
Aberrant song pulse and defects in responses to visual stimuli.
In general short pulse trains (5 pulses or less) of the courtship song are normal in males, but although pulse trains containing more than 5 pulses begin normally, they break into polycyclic, high amplitude pulses. These polycyclic pulses have an amplitude 50-100% higher than wild-type. nonA9 does not appear to effect courtship hums. Males exhibit longer than normal mating latencies in their courtship of females. Females may be subnormally receptive to males. Males and females show a marked visual impairment. Males transheterozygous for nonA9 and either nonA2 or nonA5 produce normal courtship songs.
isolated as song mutant
nonA9 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4nonA.Kpn3/nonAUAS.cSa
nonA9 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4nonA.Kpn4/nonAUAS.cSa
nonA9 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4nonA.Kpn5/nonAUAS.cSa
nonA9 is partially rescued by Scer\GAL4nonA.Kpn1/nonAUAS.cSa
nonA9 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4nonA.Kpn7/nonAUAS.cSa
Steinlauf.
Isolated as a courtship song mutant.