The following information accompanied stocks donated to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center by Lawrence Goldstein, University of California, San Diego.
rdtp5 (on the second chromosome) is a spontaneous rdtp allele found by the Zuker lab in the background of third chromosomal insertion P{PZ}l(3)0428104281. rdtp5 is homozygous lethal and exhibits a dominant "tail-flipping" phenotype.
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Annette Parks, Ph.D.
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
http://flystocks.bio.indiana.edu