Deletion within the rod transcription unit, several changes are detected within the 500bp sequenced - a deletion of 12bp and another of 189bp and substitution of 3 new nucleotides at the end of this deletion, all these changes retain the open reading frame.
One of three lesions associated with this mutation; 12 bp deletion.
One of three lesions associated with this mutation; 189 bp deletion.
Mutant 3rd instar larval brains have a mitotic phenotype; 39.4% of anaphases are abnormal (showing lagging chromatids, chromatin bridges and nondisjunction) in untreated brains. Colchicine-treated mutant brains show 38.2% premature sister chromatid separation (compared to 0.96% in wild type) and have a mitotic index of 0.66 (compared to 2.44 in wild-type treated brains).
The mitotic index of mutant larval brains is 0.9, compared to 1.02 in wild-type brains. Mutant brains incubated with colchicine do not show an increase in mitotic index, even after 1 hour of drug treatment, in contrast to wild-type brains, which show a doubling of the mitotic index in this time. Mutant larval brain neuroblasts treated with colchicine often do not arrest in prometaphase (which occurs in wild-type neuroblasts in response to colchicine), but instead enter an anaphase-like state with separated sister chromatids.
Strong allele.
rodX-5 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype, non-enhanceable by Zw1016
rodX-5 has abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype, non-suppressible by Zw1016
rodX-5 is a non-enhancer of abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype of Zw1016
rodX-5 is a suppressor of abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype of aspE3
rodX-5 is a non-suppressor of abnormal mitotic cell cycle phenotype of Zw1016
rodX-5 has nuclear chromosome phenotype, non-enhanceable by Zw1016
rodX-5 has mitotic anaphase phenotype, non-enhanceable by Zw1016
rodX-5 has nuclear chromosome phenotype, non-suppressible by Zw1016
rodX-5 has mitotic anaphase phenotype, non-suppressible by Zw1016
rodX-5 is a non-enhancer of nuclear chromosome phenotype of Zw1016
rodX-5 is a non-enhancer of mitotic anaphase phenotype of Zw1016
rodX-5 is a non-suppressor of nuclear chromosome phenotype of Zw1016
rodX-5 is a non-suppressor of mitotic anaphase phenotype of Zw1016
Abnormal anaphases and premature sister chromatid separation occur at the same frequency in mit(1)1516 rodX-5 double mutants as in either single mutant alone. There is no additive effect; the range of defects is quantitatively and qualitatively comparable with that for either single mutant.