1.15kb insertion of defective (KP) P element in 5' region of Gpdh gene, at nucleotide position 1305, inserted in the opposite orientation as the Gpdh gene.
Less than 50% activity of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase compared to normal-activity wild type allele.
GpdhACyg8/Df(2L)GpdhA flies have reduced Gpdh enzyme activity compared to wild-type. Slow electrophoretic variant.
Isolated from a population in Cygnet, Tasmania, in 1983.
This variant found in an Tasmanian population. See also Gibson et al., 1986, Heredity 56:227--235 , Gibson et al, 1991, Heredity 66:75--82 and Symonds and Gibson, 1992, Biochem. Genet. 30:167--186 .