FB2026_02 , released June 18, 2026
Gene: Ecol\lacZ
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General Information
Symbol
Ecol\lacZ
Species
E. coli
Name
β-galactosidase
Annotation Symbol
Feature Type
FlyBase ID
FBgn0014447
Gene Model Status
Stock Availability
Gene Summary
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Also Known As

lacZ, β-gal, βgal, β-galactosidas

Foreign Gene Data

Foreign sequence; species == Escherichia coli; gene == lacZ; CGSC:576 ; ECOGENE:EG10527.

Summaries
Alleles, Insertions, Transgenic Constructs
Classical and Insertion Alleles ( 4626 )
For All Classical and Insertion Alleles Show
 
Other relevant insertions
Transgenic Constructs ( 8419 )
For All Alleles Carried on Transgenic Constructs Show
Transgenic constructs containing/affecting coding region of Ecol\lacZ
Transgenic constructs containing regulatory region of Ecol\lacZ
Variants
Variant Molecular Consequences
Alleles Representing Disease-Implicated Variants
Phenotypes
For more details about a specific phenotype click on the relevant allele symbol.
Lethality
Allele
Other Phenotypes
Allele
Phenotype manifest in
Allele
Orthologs
Model Organism Orthologs (via DIOPT v9.1)
Species\Gene Symbol
Score
Best Score
Best Reverse Score
Alignment
Complementation?
Transgene?
Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly) (3)
3 of 11
Yes
No
0  
3 of 11
Yes
No
0  
2 of 11
No
No
0  
Human Disease Associations
FlyBase Human Disease Model Reports
    Disease Ontology (DO) Annotations
    Models Based on Experimental Evidence ( 0 )
    Allele
    Disease
    Evidence
    References
    Potential Models Based on Orthology ( 0 )
    Human Ortholog
    Disease
    Evidence
    References
    Modifiers Based on Experimental Evidence ( 0 )
    Allele
    Disease
    Interaction
    References
    Disease Associations of Human Orthologs (via DIOPT v9.1 and OMIM)
    Note that ortholog calls supported by only 1 or 2 algorithms (DIOPT score < 3) are not shown.
    Homo sapiens (Human)
    Gene name
    Score
    OMIM
    OMIM Phenotype
    DO term
    Complementation?
    Transgene?
    Functional Complementation Data
    Functional complementation data is computed by FlyBase using a combination of the orthology data obtained from DIOPT and OrthoDB and the allele-level genetic interaction data curated from the literature.
    Interactions
    Summary of Physical Interactions
    Interaction Browsers
    Summary of Genetic Interactions
    Interaction Browsers
    Starting gene(s)
    Interaction type
    Interacting gene(s)
    Reference
    Starting gene(s)
    Interaction type
    Interacting gene(s)
    Reference
    External Data
    Linkouts
    Class of Gene
    Stocks and Reagents
    Other Comments

    dsRNA made from templates generated with primers directed against this gene.

    Ecol\lacZ expression can be used as a reporter of variegation for example in P{PZ} insertion derivatives of Dp(1;f)1187.

    Relationship to Other Genes
    Source for database merge of
    Additional comments
    Nomenclature History
    Source for database identify of
    Nomenclature comments
    Etymology
    Synonyms and Secondary IDs (24)
    Reported As
    Symbol Synonym
    LacZ
    (Bandarra et al., 2015, Bieli et al., 2015, Fernandez-Funez et al., 2015, Jones and Macdonald, 2015, Reilly et al., 2015, West et al., 2015, Zhang et al., 2015, Chtarbanova et al., 2014, Domanitskaya et al., 2014, Fernández et al., 2014, Frost et al., 2014, Gallego-Iradi et al., 2014, Hsiao et al., 2014, Kuzhandaivel et al., 2014, Martín-Peña et al., 2014, Roy et al., 2014, Fregoso Lomas et al., 2013, Karpac et al., 2013, Nagy et al., 2013, Rudrapatna et al., 2013, Samaraweera et al., 2013, White et al., 2012, Bunt et al., 2011, Charlton-Perkins et al., 2011, Eliazer et al., 2011, Pappu et al., 2011, Paredes et al., 2011, Smith et al., 2011, Wang et al., 2011, Wang et al., 2011, Zheng et al., 2011, Bataillé et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2010, Cheng et al., 2010, Fromental-Ramain et al., 2010, Kremer et al., 2010, Mathur et al., 2010, Rhiner et al., 2010, Rideout et al., 2010, Schubiger et al., 2010, Veenstra, 2010, Wang et al., 2010, Yeh et al., 2010, Zeng et al., 2010, Zeng et al., 2010, Charroux and Royet, 2009, Eivers et al., 2009, Mallik and Lakhotia, 2009, Shalaby et al., 2009, Zhang et al., 2009, Dansereau and Lasko, 2008, Fabrizio et al., 2008, Fromental-Ramain et al., 2008, Mugat et al., 2008, Vaccari et al., 2008, Beaucher et al., 2007, Kalamegham et al., 2007, Liu et al., 2007, Mandal et al., 2007, Akasaka et al., 2006, Akasaka et al., 2006, Bernard et al., 2006, Deshpande et al., 2006, Kent et al., 2006, Lam et al., 2006, Lee et al., 2006, Legent et al., 2006, Luan et al., 2006, Rival et al., 2006, Singh et al., 2006, Walters et al., 2006, Wang et al., 2006, Wang et al., 2006, Wang et al., 2006, Zinzen et al., 2006, Carr et al., 2005, Kayashima et al., 2005, Lu and Bilder, 2005, Nagel et al., 2005, Vaccari and Bilder, 2005, Chew et al., 2004, Clark et al., 2004, Kadrmas et al., 2004, Mandal et al., 2004, Meignin et al., 2004, Yoshida et al., 2004, Cha et al., 2003, Delanoue et al., 2002, Rutschmann et al., 2002, Rutschmann et al., 2000)
    lacZ
    (Bieli et al., 2015, Forés et al., 2015, Jean et al., 2015, Lu and Li, 2015, Tanaka-Matakatsu et al., 2015, West et al., 2015, de la Cova et al., 2014, Domanitskaya et al., 2014, Drewell et al., 2014, Figueiredo et al., 2014, Hamada-Kawaguchi et al., 2014, Herz et al., 2014, Johnston and Desplan, 2014, Tanaka-Matakatsu et al., 2014, Tevy et al., 2014, Xie et al., 2014, Chauhan et al., 2013, Dantoft et al., 2013, Greer et al., 2013, Gunawan et al., 2013, Guo et al., 2013, Guss et al., 2013, Jukam et al., 2013, Jukam et al., 2013, Karpac et al., 2013, Külshammer and Uhlirova, 2013, Lee, 2013, Lucas et al., 2013, Ma et al., 2013, Pérez-Gómez et al., 2013, Picchio et al., 2013, Riebli et al., 2013, Xin et al., 2013, Yang et al., 2013, Yang et al., 2013, Yu et al., 2013, Zhang et al., 2013, Bosveld et al., 2012, Bras et al., 2012, Bryantsev et al., 2012, Housden et al., 2012, Jemc et al., 2012, Kango-Singh, 2012.10.31, Ma et al., 2012, Mavromatakis and Tomlinson, 2012, Singh and Mlodzik, 2012, Timofeev et al., 2012, Verghese et al., 2012, Xie et al., 2012, Zhang et al., 2012, Ahn et al., 2011, Ajuria et al., 2011, Awasaki et al., 2011, Awasaki et al., 2011, Banks et al., 2011, Besson et al., 2011, Bhambhani et al., 2011, Casper et al., 2011, Chang et al., 2011, Chatterjee et al., 2011, Cranna et al., 2011, Ding et al., 2011, Gafuik and Steller, 2011, Gilbert et al., 2011, Giorgianni and Mann, 2011, Grillo et al., 2011, Grusche et al., 2011, Handler et al., 2011, Harris et al., 2011, Hasegawa et al., 2011, Ho et al., 2011, Holloway et al., 2011, Jiang et al., 2011, Johnson et al., 2011, Kappes et al., 2011, Kikuchi et al., 2011, Kuzina et al., 2011, Laverty et al., 2011, Lee et al., 2011, Lin et al., 2011, Marks and Kalderon, 2011, Merabet et al., 2011, Moses et al., 2011, Nakagawa et al., 2011, Ogiso et al., 2011, Orihara-Ono et al., 2011, Pérez et al., 2011, Pi et al., 2011, Roy et al., 2011, Roy et al., 2011, Saadaoui et al., 2011, Schilling et al., 2011, Schroeder et al., 2011, Schwedes et al., 2011, Sharma et al., 2011, Stephan et al., 2011, Suissa et al., 2011, Takemura and Adachi-Yamada, 2011, Tennessen et al., 2011, Terriente-Félix et al., 2011, Vasiliauskas et al., 2011, Viktorin et al., 2011, Wang et al., 2011, Zhai et al., 2011, Zhou and Kalderon, 2011, Bao et al., 2010, Bates et al., 2010, Benna et al., 2010, Berger et al., 2010, Biehs et al., 2010, Blanco et al., 2010, Boy et al., 2010, Buchon et al., 2010, Casali, 2010, Chen et al., 2010, Chioda et al., 2010, Crocker et al., 2010, Das Thakur et al., 2010, Demontis and Perrimon, 2010, de Navascués and Modolell, 2010, Deng et al., 2010, Doronkin et al., 2010, Duchi et al., 2010, Eriksson et al., 2010, Fakhouri et al., 2010, Fernandez-Funez et al., 2010, Fromental-Ramain et al., 2010, Gluderer et al., 2010, Ismat et al., 2010, Jones et al., 2010, Joshi et al., 2010, Kannan et al., 2010, Kleinschmit et al., 2010, Lam et al., 2010, Li et al., 2010, Lin et al., 2010, Ling et al., 2010, Liu et al., 2010, Losada-Pérez et al., 2010, Mathur et al., 2010, Mathur et al., 2010, Mitchell et al., 2010, Monastirioti et al., 2010, Morozova et al., 2010, Neisch et al., 2010, Neto-Silva et al., 2010, Ninov et al., 2010, Padash-Barmchi et al., 2010, Paddibhatla et al., 2010, Papadopoulos et al., 2010, Portela et al., 2010, Prazak et al., 2010, Ren et al., 2010, Richardson and Pichaud, 2010, Roignant et al., 2010, Rousset et al., 2010, Schiemann et al., 2010, Schiemann et al., 2010, Sellami et al., 2010, Sen et al., 2010, Sen et al., 2010, Siekhaus et al., 2010, Silicheva et al., 2010, Skora and Spradling, 2010, Taniue et al., 2010, Todd et al., 2010, Umehara et al., 2010, Usha and Shashidhara, 2010, Venkatesh and Shyamala, 2010, Weiss et al., 2010, Witt et al., 2010, Zheng et al., 2010, Zhou and Kalderon, 2010, Ziosi et al., 2010, Babaoglan et al., 2009, Baumgardt et al., 2009, Bhattacharya and Baker, 2009, Boyle and Berg, 2009, Chabu and Doe, 2009, Chatterjee and Ip, 2009, Dichtel-Danjoy et al., 2009, Fox and Spradling, 2009, Herz et al., 2009, Hirosawa-Takamori et al., 2009, Ho et al., 2009, Hofmeyer and Treisman, 2009, Jacobsson et al., 2009, Jaramillo et al., 2009, Jiang and Edgar, 2009, Johnson and Cagan, 2009, LaBeau et al., 2009, Lacin et al., 2009, Leal et al., 2009, Lee et al., 2009, Li and Lu, 2009, Mao and Freeman, 2009, Mendes et al., 2009, Palanker et al., 2009, Parks and Muskavitch, 2009.2.17, Prakash et al., 2009, Ricardo and Lehmann, 2009, Shafer and Taghert, 2009, Shen et al., 2009, Siddall et al., 2009, Spokony and Restifo, 2009, Svendsen et al., 2009, Tanaka-Matakatsu et al., 2009, Thevenon et al., 2009, Tonoki et al., 2009, Umemori et al., 2009, Von Ohlen et al., 2009, Wang and Huang, 2009, Widmann and Dahmann, 2009, Yan et al., 2009, Zhao et al., 2009, Barrett et al., 2008, Beckervordersandforth et al., 2008, Belenkaya et al., 2008, Berger et al., 2008, Berger et al., 2008, Choi et al., 2008, Frandsen et al., 2008, Fromental-Ramain et al., 2008, García-Zaragoza et al., 2008, Ghiglione et al., 2008, Ghiglione et al., 2008, Honegger et al., 2008, Johnson et al., 2008, Le Mée et al., 2008, Li-Kroeger et al., 2008, Lopes et al., 2008, Pavlopoulos et al., 2008, Prince et al., 2008, Qian et al., 2008, Soshnev et al., 2008, Sykiotis and Bohmann, 2008, Takacs et al., 2008, Wang et al., 2008, Weake et al., 2008, Yoshii et al., 2008, Zhao et al., 2008, Akbari et al., 2007, Assa-Kunik et al., 2007, Bach et al., 2007, Baker et al., 2007, Barrio et al., 2007, Baumgardt et al., 2007, Bazigou et al., 2007, Bejarano et al., 2007, Bello et al., 2007, Bergmann et al., 2007, Bidla et al., 2007, Bischof et al., 2007, Chanana et al., 2007, Chung et al., 2007, Ciechanska et al., 2007, Cordero et al., 2007, Coutelis and Ephrussi, 2007, Crickmore and Mann, 2007, de Navascués and Modolell, 2007, de Velasco et al., 2007, Edenfeld et al., 2007, Gajewski et al., 2007, Galindo et al., 2007, Grillenzoni et al., 2007, Guan et al., 2007, Hess et al., 2007, Hueber et al., 2007, Jang and Montell, 2007, Joshi et al., 2007, Kim et al., 2007, Kim et al., 2007, Kinel-Tahan et al., 2007, Kirchner et al., 2007, Krattinger et al., 2007, Krzemień et al., 2007, Kugler and Nagel, 2007, Lazareva et al., 2007, Lee et al., 2007, Lee et al., 2007, Letizia et al., 2007, Luque and Milan, 2007, Makhijani et al., 2007, Malpel et al., 2007, Mathieu et al., 2007, Mevel-Ninio et al., 2007, Molnar et al., 2007, Mondal et al., 2007, Montrasio et al., 2007, Mortimer and Moberg, 2007, Mukai et al., 2007, Muratoglu et al., 2007, Nagaraj and Banerjee, 2007, Nishimura et al., 2007, Ohlstein and Spradling, 2007, Ohlstein and Spradling, 2007, Pepple et al., 2007, Pereanu et al., 2007, Pfleger et al., 2007, Popichenko et al., 2007, Ramel et al., 2007, Richardson et al., 2007, Ryan et al., 2007, Sakurai et al., 2007, Sandmann et al., 2007, Sato and Tomlinson, 2007, Schafer et al., 2007, Simionato et al., 2007, Song et al., 2007, Stahl et al., 2007, Stevens and Mann, 2007, Tanaka-Matakatsu et al., 2007, Thomas and van Meyel, 2007, Tokusumi et al., 2007, Tyler et al., 2007, Vanderzwan-Butler et al., 2007, Von Ohlen et al., 2007, Wada et al., 2007, Wang et al., 2007, Zeitlinger et al., 2007, Zhao et al., 2007, Zirin and Mann, 2007, Abrams et al., 2006, Albrecht et al., 2006, Arney et al., 2006, Atkey et al., 2006, Bangi and Wharton, 2006, Bangi and Wharton, 2006, Banziger et al., 2006, Bartscherer et al., 2006, Beckett and Baylies, 2006, Bello et al., 2006, Bennett and Harvey, 2006, Bossing and Brand, 2006, Bowler et al., 2006, Boyle et al., 2006, Bras-Pereira et al., 2006, Brown et al., 2006, Buescher et al., 2006, Cafferty et al., 2006, Casper and Van Doren, 2006, Chanut-Delalande et al., 2006, Chen and Schupbach, 2006, Chen et al., 2006, Childress et al., 2006, Crickmore and Mann, 2006, Crickmore and Mann, 2006, Croker et al., 2006, Culi et al., 2006, de Navas et al., 2006, de Navas et al., 2006, Dussillol-Godar et al., 2006, Eissenberg, 2006, Ekas et al., 2006, Estrada et al., 2006, Fang et al., 2006, Gajewski et al., 2006, Garces and Thor, 2006, Godenschwege, 2006, Hamaratoglu et al., 2006, Hennig et al., 2006, Herranz et al., 2006, Herz et al., 2006, Hofmeyer et al., 2006, Husain et al., 2006, Irion et al., 2006, Jaekel and Klein, 2006, Jafar-Nejad et al., 2006, Jaiswal et al., 2006, Janody and Treisman, 2006, Januschke et al., 2006, Jiang and Crews, 2006, Jordan et al., 2006, Joshi et al., 2006, Kahn et al., 2006, Kambris et al., 2006, Kavi et al., 2006, Kim et al., 2006, Kim et al., 2006, Kim et al., 2006, Kim et al., 2006, Kim et al., 2006, Kozu et al., 2006, Kraft et al., 2006, Krause et al., 2006, Kuranaga et al., 2006, Laplante and Nilson, 2006, Layden et al., 2006, Le Bras and Van Doren, 2006, Lee et al., 2006, Lee et al., 2006, Libert et al., 2006, Lim and Tomlinson, 2006, Lin et al., 2006, Liu et al., 2006, Long et al., 2006, Lovegrove et al., 2006, Luschnig et al., 2006, MacMullin and Jacobs, 2006, Mao et al., 2006, Maqbool et al., 2006, Martin-Lanneree et al., 2006, Matakatsu and Blair, 2006, Meier et al., 2006, Mihaly et al., 2006, Mirkovic and Mlodzik, 2006, Mohit et al., 2006, Molnar and de Celis, 2006, Morris et al., 2006, Muratoglu et al., 2006, Muro et al., 2006, Murray et al., 2006, Narbonne-Reveau et al., 2006, Ng et al., 2006, Noro et al., 2006, Ogden et al., 2006, Otsuna and Ito, 2006, Palanker et al., 2006, Pallavi et al., 2006, Parker, 2006, Pereanu and Hartenstein, 2006, Pereira et al., 2006, Polaski et al., 2006, Poulton and Deng, 2006, Qi et al., 2006, Rives et al., 2006, Roignant et al., 2006, Sato et al., 2006, Schimmelpfeng et al., 2006, Seidner et al., 2006, Senger et al., 2006, Seto and Bellen, 2006, Siddall et al., 2006, Silva, 2006, Silva et al., 2006, Smelkinson and Kalderon, 2006, Soller et al., 2006, Sotillos and de Celis, 2006, Sprecher et al., 2006, Srahna et al., 2006, Stultz et al., 2006, Sun et al., 2006, Swan et al., 2006, ten Bosch et al., 2006, Terry et al., 2006, Uhlirova and Bohmann, 2006, Umetsu et al., 2006, Urbach et al., 2006, Vrailas and Moses, 2006, Vrailas et al., 2006, Walker et al., 2006, Wang et al., 2006, Ward et al., 2006, Ward et al., 2006, Wehn and Campbell, 2006, Wells et al., 2006, Wernet et al., 2006, Wheeler et al., 2006, Willecke et al., 2006, Williams et al., 2006, Yamamoto, 2006, Yamamoto et al., 2006, Yao et al., 2006, Yasunaga et al., 2006, Zaffran et al., 2006, Zaidman-Remy et al., 2006, Zhang et al., 2006, Zhou et al., 2006, Adachi-Yamada et al., 2005, Apitz et al., 2005, Babu et al., 2005, Bao and Cagan, 2005, Barmina et al., 2005, Bejarano et al., 2005, Biryukova and Heitzler, 2005, Chanas and Maschat, 2005, Chotard et al., 2005, Decotto and Spradling, 2005, Del Carmen Seleme et al., 2005, Djiane et al., 2005, Dutta et al., 2005, Gao et al., 2005, Glise et al., 2005, Gorfinkiel et al., 2005, Hassan et al., 2005, Hombria et al., 2005, Horabin, 2005, Iwanami et al., 2005, Jia et al., 2005, Kalmykova et al., 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2004, Ronshaugen and Levine, 2004, Ryoo et al., 2004, Schweinsberg and Schedl, 2004, Sengupta et al., 2004, Tsai and Sun, 2004, Wang and Struhl, 2004, Cowden and Levine, 2003, Devaud et al., 2003, Lei et al., 2003, With et al., 2003, Kido and Ito, 2002, Lee et al., 2002, Lee et al., 2002, Schwaerzel et al., 2002, True et al., 2001, Allen et al., 2000, An et al., 2000, Small, 2000, Waddell et al., 2000, Armstrong et al., 1998)
    Name Synonyms
    b-galactosidase
    beta-Galactosidase
    beta-galactosidase
    β galactosidase
    β- galactosidase
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