Insertion of 2.2kb DNA.
2.2kb insertion at map position +45.5 to +46.1.
axon & motor neuron | conditional ts
Sh16 mutant flies are capable of sustained flight (for longer than 10 seconds).
Sh16 mutant flies exhibit a flight pattern that is different to wild-type flies, with increased wing beat frequency but largely normal DLM spiking activity, including an average firing rate and cv of the inter-spike interval.
Mutant flies exhibit a decrease in the daily sleep amount. This is mainly due to a decrease in the duration of sleep episodes rather than in their number. This phenotype is very sensitive to background modifiers. Those animals that exhibit a short sleeping phenotype also exhibited a shorter lifespan than control siblings.
More sensitive than the wild-type to the knock-down effect of acute γ-irradiation.
IA is completely eliminated in homozygous third larval instar muscles.
A-type current is completely absent.
Ether-dependent leg shaking and wing scissoring. Chloroform, ethyl acetate and carbon dioxide etherization does not elicit shaking behavior, though nitrogen and triethylkamine etherization does. Unetherized, older flies show uncoordinated walking behavior, and stand quivering on the bottom of the culture bottle.
abnormal leg shaking under ether anesthesia; abnormal A-type potassium currents in larval muscle and/or pupal flight muscle; abnormal action potentials in the adult cervical giant fiber; abnormal synaptic transmission at the larval neuromuscular junction and multiple firing of larval motoneurons.
Sh16 has increased rate of movement phenotype, enhanceable by qvr1
Sh16 is an enhancer of increased rate of movement phenotype of qvr1
No wings down phenotype was observed for qvr1 in combination with Sh21, Sh5 or Sh16 though leg shaking is more vigorous in these double mutants than in either of the Sh of qvr single mutants alone. At external Ca2+ concentration of 0.4mM, the increase in EJC amplitude caused by qvr1 is no greater than that caused by Sh16, and is not enhanced by Sh16.
The leg shaking phenotype is suppressed by paralk5.
Ganetzky.
Phenotype suppressed by mlenap-ts1, even at permissive temperatures. Shaking and suppressed phenotypes are evident in severed legs as well as in the whole organism.
Allelic series of Sh defects: Sh7 > Sh14 > Sh16 > Sh5 > Sh9.