Imprecise excision of the progenitor insertion, resulting in a 7083bp deletion within the inserted P{SUPor-P} element and a deletion of 839bp of pzg sequences, including the transcription and translation start sites. A 3' part of the original P{SUPor-P} insertion remains.
A deletion resulting from the imprecise excision of P{SUPor-P}KG04911 which removes7083 bp within the P-element and 839 bp of pzg sequences.
Homozygous embryos show normal development. Homozygous larvae show a developmental delay and are smaller and thinner than wild-type larvae. The mutant larvae show an almost linear mortality rate with age, and none of them survive more than 150 hours. They moult only once during this time, reaching the second instar stage, but then there is no further increase in size. The addition of 20-hydroxyecdysone to the diet results in almost 90% of mutants surviving to to the second instar and nearly all of them reach the third instar.
Homozygous first and second instar larvae show significantly reduced mouth-hook contractions per time interval relative to controls. They are able to take up food, as assayed by the presence of coloured yeast in the gut in a feeding assay. Homozygous larvae are more sluggish than control larvae and remain dispersed on the plates in the feeding assay, in contrast to wild-type larvae which reach the central food source more quickly.
pzg66/pzg[+] is an enhancer of melanotic mass phenotype | adult stage | dominant phenotype of hopTum
pzg66/pzg[+] is an enhancer of melanotic mass | adult stage phenotype of hopTum
pzg66/pzg[+] is an enhancer of lamellocyte | larval stage | increased number phenotype of hopTum
pzg66 is rescued by Scer\GAL4da.G32/pzgUAS.cKa
Expression of pzgScer\UAS.cKa under the control of Scer\GAL4da.G32 rescues the lethality of homozygous pzg66 larvae, in a dose-dependent manner.