painEP2621 contains P{EP}painEP2621 in the 5'UTR and contains a 12kb deficiency that deletes the promoter and enhancer elements of the pain gene.
painEP2621 mutant larvae do not have reduced rolling (escape) behavior in response to noxious temperature increases, compared to controls.
painEP2621 mutant adults show normal preference for less solid sucrose-agarose food than a harder one (higher agarose conc., same sucrose content) one in a two-way food choice assay.
painEP2621 mutant females show enhanced sexual receptivity. The mating success of homozygous painEP2621 mutant females is significantly higher than that of wild type females and the time required for copulation is significantly shorter. No significant difference is detected between wild type and painEP2621 females in the courtship latency (duration between introduction of flies and the first courtship), courtship index (percentage of time spent courting) or general locomotion.
The number of times painEP2621 females reject males is significantly lower than that of wild-type females.
The gustatory aversion of mutant flies to 6mM camphor in a two way-choice test is not significantly different from that seen in wild-type flies.
painEP2621 heterozygous adults are defective in courtship long term memory (reduction in courtship activity 5 days after 7-hours conditioning) while they exhibit normal courtship short term memory (reduction in courtship activity 30 minutes after 1-hour conditioning) when compared to controls.
Mutant adults show normal avoidance of 1% citronellal in a direct airborne repellent test (DART) assay.
Mutant third instar larvae show the same preference for 17.5[o]C over 14[o]C in a two-way choice test as do wild-type controls.
Mutant larvae do not show the cardiac pauses during motion which are seen in wild-type larvae.
Basal cardiac activity (measured in anaesthetised animals) is increased in mutant larvae compared to wild-type controls.
Contractility of the heart tube is reduced in mutant larvae compared to wild-type controls.
painEP2621 mutants retain a preference for 18[o]C (i.e. are thermotactic).
painEP2621 flies exhibit a reduced avoidance to isothiocyanate-containing food.
painEP2621 mutants exhibit normal avoidance to quinine and NaCl. They also exhibit wild-type levels of attraction to sucrose.
painEP2621 mutants exhibit wild-type levels of attraction to capsaicin.
painEP2451/painEP2621 trans-heterozygotes exhibit a reduced avoidance to isothiocyanate-containing food as in homozygous mutants.
Mutants are strongly insensitive to noxious heat.
painEP2621 is rescued by pain+t8.5
painEP2621 is rescued by painUAS.cTa/Scer\GAL4pain-GAL4
painEP2621 is not rescued by Scer\GAL4Ilp2.PU/painUAS.cTa
painEP2621 is not rescued by painGAL4
painEP2621 fails to rescue painGAL4
Expression of painScer\UAS.cTa in insulin producing cells under the control of Scer\GAL4Ilp2.PU is unable to rescue the increased sexual receptivity seen in painEP2621 mutant females.
painEP2621/+ fails to rescue courtship long term memory phenotype of painGAL4/+.
Expression of pain+t8.5 rescues while painGAL4/+ fails to rescue courtship long term memory phenotype of painEP2621/+ .
Based on the avoidance to isothiocyanate-containing food in a two-choice preference test, the following alleles can be ranked from strongest response to weakest in the following order: painEP2451 > painEP2621 > painGAL4.