Polytene chromosomes normal.
Mutation in the V region of the Sh locus.
Sh21 mutant flies are capable of sustained flight (for longer than 10 seconds).
Sh21 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.
Sh21 mutant larvae fail to exhibit Response Index increment by associative training upon LIN/SUC exposure.
The seizure threshold following short wavetrains of high-frequency electrical stimuli (0.5ms pulses at 200Hz for 300ms) is increased in mutant flies (86.9 +/- 8.5 V) compared to controls.
The threshold for activation of the giant fiber in mutant animals following single stimulus pulses (0.2ms duration, 0.5Hz) is not significantly different from that of wild type.
The giant fiber following frequency (the maximum stimulation frequency that the giant fiber pathway can reliably follow) is reduced compared to wild type in mutant animals.
When exposed to 10mM paraquat for 48hr, mutants show 30% survival (wild type shows 97% survival).
Habituation of the giant fiber escape pathway occurs more rapidly in Sh21 flies than in wild-type. The long-latency response is delayed slightly. The short-latency response of the tergotrochanteral muscle is delayed. The rate of habituation in Sh21 eag1 double mutants is no more extreme than in Sh21 or eag1 single mutants.
Homozygotes show increased sensitivity to chloroform and trichloroethylene, but not to halothane in an inebriometer assay (an assay of geotactic and postural behaviour) compared to wild-type flies.
More sensitive than the wild-type to the knock-down effect of acute γ-irradiation.
The delivery of an electrical buzz (50-400 msec) to the brain has no significant effect on Sh21 mutant flies.
Flies show leg-shaking under anaesthesia. Increases the refractory period and lowers the following frequency of the giant fibre response of the dorsal longitudinal muscle pathway, and lowers the following frequency of the giant fibre response of the tergotrochanteral muscle pathway. eag1 Sh21 and eag4PM Sh21 double mutant flies show spontaneous activity of the dorsal longitudinal and dorsoventral indirect flight muscles when at rest. This phenotype is suppressed by mlenap-ts1 in eag1 Sh21 mlenap-ts1 flies. 54% of eag4PM Sh21 flies have a wings-down phenotype.
eag4PM Sh21 double mutant larvae show an increased ramification of neurites throughout muscles 12 and 13. This phenotype is suppressed by mlenap-ts1 at the restrictive temperature. eag4PM Sh21 double mutant larval muscles show periods of activity not organised into bursts (tonic activity) in contrast to wild-type. This phenotype is partially suppressed by mlenap-ts1.
Flies manifest chronic vibration of their appendages as well as abnormal action potentials. Hypersensitive to TEM Hypersensitive to triethylamine, causes lethality.
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.
Sh21 has chemical sensitive phenotype, enhanceable by eag1
Sh21 has increased rate of movement phenotype, enhanceable by qvr1
Sh21, eag1 has abnormal neuroanatomy | third instar larval stage phenotype, suppressible by LanAC01-190/Scer\GAL4C57
Sh21, eag1 has abnormal neuroanatomy | third instar larval stage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42/ItgbnUAS.cTa
Sh21, eag1 has chemical sensitive phenotype, suppressible | partially by mlenap-ts1
Sh21 is an enhancer of chemical sensitive phenotype of eag1
Sh21 is an enhancer of increased rate of movement phenotype of qvr1
Sh21, eag1 has abnormal neuroanatomy | third instar larval stage phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has abnormal neuroanatomy phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has increased rate of movement phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has abnormal behavior phenotype
Sh21, eag24 has abnormal behavior phenotype
Sh21, eag4PM has abnormal behavior phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has neuromuscular junction | third instar larval stage phenotype, suppressible by LanAC01-190/Scer\GAL4C57
Sh21, eag1 has neuromuscular junction | third instar larval stage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4Toll-6-D42/ItgbnUAS.cTa
Sh21, eag1 has neuromuscular junction | third instar larval stage phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has indirect flight muscle motor neuron DLMN5 phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has neuromuscular junction phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has anterior postalar bristle phenotype
Sh21, eag1 has posterior supraalar bristle phenotype
eag1 Sh21 double mutant third instar larvae show overgrowth of the neuromuscular junction. This overgrowth is significantly suppressed by expression of either LanAC01-190 under the control of Scer\GAL4C57 or βInt-νScer\UAS.cTa under the control of Scer\GAL4D42.
There is an increase in the number and density of secondary branches along the primary branches of the motor neuron that innervates DLMa in eag1/Sh21 mutants. The length of these secondary branches is not affected, but 75% of mutants have less than the wild-type number of contact points between the neuron and the muscle.
eag1. Sh21 mutants exhibit a synaptic over-growth phenotype. The addition of G-sα60AB19 suppresses this phenotype.
eag1 Sh21, eag24 Sh21 and eag4PM Sh21 double mutants exhibit vigorous leg-shaking behaviour under ether anaesthesia. Many exhibit a wings down phenotype. High frequency, spontaneous EJPs of a greater amplitude are seen at larval neuromuscular junctions and spontaneous discharges of EJPs or action potentials can be recorded in adult flight muscles.
The leg shaking phenotype is suppressed by paralk5.
eag1, Sh21 double hemizygous males show ether-induced violent leg shaking. Analysis of eag1, Sh21 mosaics shows that bristles not normally responsive to mechanical stimulation, such as the anterior postalar and posterior supraalar sensory cells, become much more sensitive to mechanical stimulation in the double mutant.
O'Hara.
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.
Mutation reduces the amplitude of IA in larval muscles.