Homozygous adults show a reduced response to propionic acid, ethyl butyrate and 2-butanone in an electroantennogram assay compared to control flies. The response to butanol, 1-octanol, benzaldehyde, butyl acetate and 2-heptanone in this assay is not significantly different from the response of control flies to these odorants. Mutant flies have fewer antennal neurons that are sensitive to ethyl butyrate than control flies. The proportion of antennal olfactory neurons that are responsive to membrane-permeant cyclic nucleotide analogues (8-Br-cAMP and 8-Br-cGMP) is also reduced in mutant flies compared to wild-type.
Application of serotonin failed to alter modulation of the channel in a semi-intact preparation of the retina.
Homozygotes show increased sensitivity to chloroform, but not to trichloroethylene and halothane in an inebriometer assay (an assay of geotactic and postural behaviour) compared to wild-type flies.
Ether induced leg shaking and electrophysiological defect characteristic of eag mutations.
Mutant photoreceptors have apparently normal IA, IKs and IKf currents.
Agol, 1930.