Insertion in the second exon.
gish04895 homozygous adult males have small testes and along with the gish04895/gishMI08417 or gish04895/gishKG03891 transheterozygous mutants show decreased average number of germline stem cells in the testes already at post-eclosion day 1 and as the flies age the GSCs continue to be lost at a rapid rate, this however is not due to excessive apoptosis and neither do the mutant GSCs lose their adhesion to the hub cells as shown in gish04895/gishMI08417 males. No significant difference in the number of GSCs is observed in gish04895 heterozygotes, as compared to wild-type controls.
The germline stem cells in the heat-shock induced gish04895 mutant germline clones in testes of adult male flies are rapidly lost as the flies age.
gish04895/+ mutant flies exhibit a seizure-resistant phenotype, exhibiting a seizure threshold of about twice that of wild type. No other phenotypes are apparent; electrophysiology, behavior and morphology are all wild type.
Heterozygotes show a significant impairment in 30 minute and 3 hour memory after olfactory conditioning compared to wild-type flies, but do not show significant impairment in 3 minute memory.
Heterozygotes and homozygotes show normal shock and odour avoidance.
The nuclei of onion stage spermatids are scattered over the cyst in its basal third in homozygous males (the nuclei form a bundle at this stage in wild-type males). The actin cones also fail to form a bundle in the mutant spermatids. In late individualisation stage spermatids, the normal association between mitochondrial derivative and axoneme is lost in mutant males. In addition, although the major mitochondrial derivative has a horseshoe-shaped morphology characteristic of this stage, the minor mitochondrial derivative displays a morphology characteristic of the early individualisation stage.
gish[+]/gish04895 is a suppressor of bang sensitive | semidominant phenotype of parabss1
gish[+]/gish04895 is a non-suppressor of bang sensitive phenotype of parabss1
gish[+]/gish04895 is a non-suppressor of bang sensitive phenotype of eas2
The bang sensitive phenotype seen in parabss1/+ mutant females can be partially suppressed with one copy of gish04895. Fewer flies exhibit bang-sensitivity and the threshold for seizure-like activity is partially rescued. A gish04895/+ background does not suppress the bang sensitive phenotypes in parabss1/parabss1 or parabss1/Y mutant flies.
The bang sensitive phenotype seen in eas2/+ mutant females is not suppressed by one copy of gish04895. The penetrance and threshold for seizure initiation are similar to in eas2 mutants alone.
gish04895/gishMI08417 is rescued by gishgish.F
gish04895/gishMI08417 is rescued by gishUASp.F/Scer\GAL4VP16.nanos.UTR
gish04895/gishKG03891 is rescued by gishgish.F
gish04895/gishKG03891 is rescued by gishUASp.F/Scer\GAL4VP16.nanos.UTR
gish04895 is rescued by gishgish.F
gish04895 is rescued by gishnanos.F
gish04895/gishMI08417 is not rescued by gishUASp.F/Scer\GAL4C587
gish04895/gishKG03891 is not rescued by gishUASp.F/Scer\GAL4C587
The age-progressive loss of germline stem cells in adult male testes observed in gish04895 homozygotes as well as gish04895/gishKG03891 or gish04895/gishMI08417 transheterozygotes is fully rescued by combination with either gishgish.F. Similarly, combination with gishnos.F also rescues the phenotype in gish04895 homozygotes and both gish04895/gishKG03891 and gish04895/gishMI08417 mutants can be rescued by expression of gishScer\UAS.P\T.F under the control of Scer\GAL4nos.UTR.T:Hsim\VP16 (but not Scer\GAL4C587).
A. Spradling.
Complements: l(3)0520305203.
Complements Df(3R)sbd105, indicating that the insertion does not cause the male sterility, or has been mismapped.
Precise excision of the P-element completely suppresses the bang-sensitive phenotype and restores viability, but does not appear to revert the male sterility phenotype.