Although the Doc{}altB8 insertion is within alt, evidence suggests that the mutant phenotype caused by the insertion is due to an effect on the upstream gene, ald, and not due to an effect on alt; the Doc{}altB8 chromosome fails to complement ald1 and is rescued by ald+t4.2, and altexcision18 (a mutation affecting only alt) complements the meiotic nondisjunction phenotype of the Doc{}altB8 chromosome.
Associated with: altB8.
FlyBase curator comment: two alleles are associated with Doc{}altB8 in the database; altB8, which represents the insertion within the alt transcription unit, and aldB8, which represents the mutant phenotype caused by the effect of the insertion on the ald gene.