In the odour-induced jump test, homozygous mutants of mysolfC-x5 are defective in response to iso-amyl acetate but not benzaldehyde or ethyl acetate, when compared to controls.
Mutant synapses at the larval neuromuscular junction show overgrowth.
Mutants exhibit reduced olfactory responses to isoamyl acetate, whether homozygous or in combination with mysolfC-x3, mysolfC-x10 or mysolfC-x17. Homozygous mutants are wild-type in response to ethyl acetate, but show a reduced response in combination with mysolfC-x3 and mysolfC-x10.
Larvae show a reduced response to iso-pentyl acetate. Larvae show abnormal responses to certain acetates. Larvae show no significant response to any volume of hexyl acetate.
Homozygous adults show a reduced attraction to iso-amyl acetate compared to wild-type in a slow chemotaxis assay, although they appear to detect ethyl acetate normally. mysolfC-x3/mysolfC-x5 and mysolfC-x10/mysolfC-x5 flies are defective in their responses to both ethyl acetate and iso-amyl acetate.
normal response to ethyl acetate; reduced to iso-amyl acetate
mysolfC-x5, swsolfE-x26 has abnormal smell perception phenotype
ifB2, mysolfC-x5 has abnormal smell perception phenotype
ifk27e, mysolfC-x5 has abnormal smell perception phenotype
In the odour-induced jump test, mutants with the transheterozygous combination of mysolfC-x5 with swsolfE-x26 show a reduced response to both iso-amyl acetate and benzaldehyde but a normal response to ethyl acetate, compared to controls.
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