FlyBase curator comment: this entry is used to capture phenotypic information when the particular allele (or allele combination) used by the author could not be determined but the context of the experiment suggests that the phenotype being described is some kind of loss of function.
65% of hemizygous files show no or only weak entrainment to temperature cycles in assays studying locomotor rhythms.
smetunspecified/Df(2L)Rev18 larvae have reduced touch sensitivity compared to wild-type. Locomotion in these larvae is aberrant: compared to controls they are slower and they pause, turn and retreat more often. These defects in locomotion arise at least partially from defective peristaltic motion: stride period and % positive and negative flow are altered compared to wild-type and the larvae spend the majority of a single peristaltic cycle in a retracted position.
nocted07154 ; smetunspecified double mutant flies show more severe defects in entrainment to temperature cycles than either single mutant in assays studying locomotor rhythms, indicating an additive effect.