Heat sensitive period is from during embryonic development to prepupal stage, before the onset of metamorphosis. Cold sensitive period of females extends from after metamorphosis and includes the adult stage.
Fails to complement paraID30 and parahd5 for viability. Homozygotes are viable and show a broadly based olfactory defect that alters their ability to respond to odorants representing multiple chemical classes. parasbl-2 flies show an aberrant larval olfactory response to propionic acid at dilutions spanning three orders of magnitude. Does not show temperature sensitive paralysis. Transheterozygotes with parahd1, parahd2 and parats1 show normal olfactory response to 10-1 propionic acid. Inviability is enhanced in a mlenap-ts1 background.
Flies have a smell-blind phenotype with defective responses to benzaldehyde, ethyl acetate, iso-amyl acetate, acetic acid, propionic acid, ethanol and butanol.
Lower than wild type larval olfactory response to propionic acid, ethyl acetate and acetone. Also defective in contact chemosensory response. Females lay eggs at 29oC which then die as larvae: normal survival is seen at 25oC.
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Missense mutation that eliminates the 'olfactory specific' splice form of para through specific exon-skipping events.