paralytic | heat sensitive (with Snap25ts)
Homozygous larvae appear to behave normally; they can crawl and feed and withdraw upon prodding. Pupal development occurs normally and pharate adults have a beating heart, tanning of the cuticle and some weak pumping of the head capsule at the stage at which control animals being eclosing from the pupal case. If these animals are manually removed from the puparium they are capable of slight twitching movements of the forelegs and palps. They do not inflate their wings and survive for up to 18 hours if kept in a moist enclosed chamber at 22o. The size of the excitatory junctional currents (EJCs) at the neuromuscular junction is not significantly different from controls in homozygous third instar larvae. The size and shape of miniature EJCs (mEJCs) is normal in the mutant larvae, but the frequency of mEJCs is about 50% of normal. Electroretinograms of mutant pharate adults show a complete lack of on- and off-transients.
Snap25124 has lethal | recessive | pharate adult stage phenotype, suppressible by Snap24hs.PN
Snap25124 has abnormal neurophysiology phenotype, suppressible by Snap24hs.PN
The presynaptic homeostatic plasticity that normally occurs after application of the postsynaptic glutamate receptor antagonist PhTx is blocked in Snap25124/+ ; Df(2L)Exel6277/+ double heterozygous larvae. Synaptic homeostasis can be restored in the double heterozygotes through expression of SnapinScer\UAS.cDa in the motorneurons (under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155).
The electroretinogram defects of Snap25124 pharate adults are rescued by expression Snap24hs.PN.
Snap25124/Df(3L)1-16 is rescued by Snap25nSyb.PR
Snap25124 is rescued by Snap25nSyb.PR
The reduction in frequency of miniature excitatory junctional currents at the neuromuscular junction of Snap25124 homozygous third instar larvae is rescued by Snap25n-syb.PR. The electroretinogram defects of Snap25124 pharate adults are rescued by Snap25n-syb.PR.