FB2026_01 , released March 12, 2026
FB2026_01 , released March 12, 2026
Allele: Dmel\nonA9
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General Information
Symbol
Dmel\nonA9
Species
D. melanogaster
Name
FlyBase ID
FBal0013091
Feature type
allele
Associated gene
Associated Insertion(s)
Carried in Construct
Also Known As
nonAdiss, diss
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Nature of the Allele
Progenitor genotype
Cytology
Description

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.

Mutations Mapped to the Genome
Curation Data
Type
Location
Additional Notes
References
Nucleotide change:

C16365216T

Reported nucleotide change:

C7434T

Amino acid change:

R548C | nonA-PA; R548C | nonA-PB; R548C | nonA-PC; R548C | nonA-PD

Reported amino acid change:

R548C

Variant Molecular Consequences
Associated Sequence Data
DNA sequence
Protein sequence
 
Expression Data
Reporter Expression
Additional Information
Statement
Reference

The full-length nonA protein is produced in nonA9 adult males and females. No detectable differences in spatial location were observed between mutant and wild type proteins in adults.

Transcripts are detected in heads and bodies of males and females.

 
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Phenotypic Data
Phenotypic Class
Phenotype Manifest In
Detailed Description
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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

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Complementation and Rescue Data
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Comments

Heat induced expression of nonAhs.PR throughout embryonic to pupal development, or during the first five days following eclosion, or during development and early development rescues the visual and song phenotypes.

Song defects can be rescued by P element mediated transformation of nonA+.

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Mutant
Wild-type
Stocks (1)
Notes on Origin
Discoverer

Steinlauf.

Comments
Comments

Isolated as a courtship song mutant.

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Synonyms and Secondary IDs (4)
References (14)