Amino acid replacement: 201F.
C16580581T
S201F | Smn-PA; S201F | Smn-PB
S201F
Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
Approximately one-third of homozygous larvae survive beyond day 8 after egg laying, a period when the control larvae have already pupated. Some of these animals form pseudopupae before dying.
Homozygous second-third instar larvae show impaired motor function, showing a smaller distance travelled in the 20 seconds after movement was stimulated with a needle than control larvae.
Homozygotes die as late larvae.
SmnB is rescued by SmnUASp.Venus/Scer\GAL4da.G32
The lethality of SmnB is rescued by expression of SmnScer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP-YFP.Venus under the control of Scer\GAL4da.G32.