The following information accompanied stocks donated to the Bloomington Stock Center by Bala Iyengar.
Iyengar and colleagues in the London Regional Cancer Programme, London, Ontario, Canada generated mutations and transgenic constructs in the study of the the slow/CG7447 gene, which they referred to as blade runner (blr).
slowblr-1, slowblr-2 and slowblr-3 are P element excision alleles. slowblr-1 affects only slow and removes ~2.1 kb including the entire first exon. The other alleles have not been characterized molecularly.
P{UAS-slow.I} expresses wild type slow under UAS control. P{UAS-slow.I}2 is a second chromosome insertion.
P{slow-GAL4.I} drives the expression of GAL4 from slow regulatory sequences. P{slow-GAL4.I}3 is a third chromosome insertion.