Corresponds to a 8.7kb NotI-Asp718 genomic fragment that includes 5kb upstream of the start codon and 1kb downstream of the polyadenylation site.
nuclear body & pole cell
Expression of Dimm\oskimm in wild-type D. melanogaster embryos results in a partial transformation of pole cell nuclear bodies towards the morphology observed in D. immigrans embryos.
Dimm\oskimm is a suppressor | partially of primordial germ cell phenotype of osk1/Df(3R)p-XT103
Dimm\oskimm is a suppressor | partially of embryo phenotype of osk1/Df(3R)p-XT103
Dimm\oskimm, osk1 has P granule phenotype
Expression of Dimm\oskimm in embryos from osk1/Df(3R)p-XT103 mothers rescues the body patterning and pole cell formation defects of these mutant embryos; fewer pole cells form than in wild-type embryos, but they are functional. The progression of polar granule development in Dimm\oskimm; osk1/Df(3R)p-XT103 embryos is like that seen in D. melanogaster until the cellular blastoderm stage, when the smaller granules accumulate in one area of the cell, so that by gastrulation each pole cell contains a single large aggregate of granule material, like that seen in D. immigrans embryos.