Imprecise excision of the P{EPgy2}Hip14EY09853 insertion, resulting in a deletion within the Hip14 gene that removes sequences encoding the translation start codon and the first 203 amino acids of the predicted protein.
The electroretinograms (ERGs) of flies in which the eyes are composed of homozygous tissue are abnormal; they lack the on and off transients (synaptic components of the ERG), while the slow phototransduction component is essentially normal. The external morphology of and photoreceptor axon development in homozygous eyes appears normal.
Throughout larval development, zygotic mutants show normal and vigorous foraging behaviour with no discernible developmental delay. Homozygous and hemizygous animals dissected out of their pupal cases on the day that their heterozygous siblings eclose appear fully developed and are clearly alive, but are weak, uncoordinated and cannot stand upright. The electroretinograms of these pharate adults are indistinguishable from those of flies in which the eyes are composed of homozygous tissue.
Homozygous mutants derived from females carrying homozygous germline clones show lethality during the first larval instar. These larvae hatch without a developmental delay from their egg case and have a normal appearance, but are sluggish and feed very little.
Hip14ex11 has abnormal neurophysiology | somatic clone phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4ninaE.PT/Hsap\ZDHHC17UAS.GFP
Hip14ex11 has retina | somatic clone phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4ninaE.PT/Hsap\ZDHHC17UAS.GFP
The electroretinogram defects of flies in which the eyes are composed of homozygous Hip14ex11 tissue are rescued by expression of Hsap\ZDHHC17Scer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP under the control of Scer\GAL4ninaE.PT.
Hip14ex11 is rescued by Scer\GAL4ninaE.PT/Hip14UAS.tdTomato