Amino acid replacement: G481E.
G5590777A
G481E | spo-PA; G481E | spo-PC
G481E
Site of nucleotide substitution in mutant inferred by FlyBase based on reported amino acid change.
spoZ339/spoZ303 embryos rarely hatch. When an artificial pulse of 20E is delivered to these embryos midway through embryogenesis, approximately 30% survive to hatch and 20% survive to adulthood. Rescued spoZ339/spoZ303 females produce no progeny due to arrest of egg development at stage 8 of oogenesis, while rescued males are fertile.
An artificial pulse of E allows 25% of spoZ339/spoZ303 embryos to hatch and 12% to become adults. A pulse of ketotriol allows 13% to hatch but only 1% survive to become adults. In contrast, pulses of ketodiol and 7dC do not rescue the lethality of spoZ339/spoZ303 embryos at all.