Insertion within the coding region, 1510bp downstream of the translational start site.
Gyc-89DbMB03197 mutant larvae show a similar avoidance to caffeine as wild-type larvae, but do not show a preference for sucrose, as wild-type larvae do.
Gyc-89DbMB03197 mutants show a similar attraction to 1% agar containing 100mM sucrose as wild-type. They show similar avoidance to 1% agar with 10mm caffeine as in wild-type but fail to show caffeine avoidance to lower levels of caffeine such as 1mM caffeine in 1% agar.
Recordings from s6, a S-type sensilla of the labellum, reveal a significantly reduced response to 2.5mM caffeine in Gyc-89DbMB03197 mutants. The mean number of impulses recorded is about half that from control flies.
Homozygous third instar larvae do not show defects in general locomotion.
Homozygous third instar larvae show a defect in the normal hypoxia escape response; mutant larvae which have been allowed to burrow into the food and commence feeding take significantly longer than control larvae to leave the food when exposed to low oxygen concentrations.
Mutant larvae shifted to a severe hypoxic environment (11-15% oxygen) respond in the same manner as wild-type controls, with a significant reduction in the number of stops and turns in their locomotion. However, if they are shifted to mildly hypoxic (17-20% oxygen) or hyperoxic (22-30% oxygen) conditions the mutant larvae show no behavioural response and maintain their area-restricted search with a high number of stops and turns (wild-type controls show a significant reduction in the number of stops and turns under these conditions).
Gyc89DbMB03197 has abnormal taste perception phenotype, enhanceable by Gyc89Dae01821
Gyc89DbMB03197 has abnormal taste perception phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4Gyc89Db.3.4/Gyc89DaUAS.cVa
Gyc89DbMB03197 has abnormal stress response | third instar larval stage phenotype, suppressible by Gyc89DaUAS.cVa/Scer\GAL4Gyc89Da.1.9
Gyc89DbMB03197 has abnormal stress response | third instar larval stage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4Gyc89Db.3.4/Gyc89DaUAS.cVa
Gyc89DbMB03197 has abnormal taste perception phenotype, non-suppressible by Gyc89DaUAS.cVa/Scer\GAL4Gyc89Da.1.9
Gyc89DbMB03197 is an enhancer of abnormal taste perception phenotype of Gyc89Dae01821
Larvae double mutant for Gyc-89Dae01821 and Gyc-89DbMB03197 show no attraction to sucrose and fail to avoid caffeine.
The preference for sucrose in Gyc-89DbMB03197 or Gyc-89DbMB03197/Gyc-89Dae01821 double mutants can be rescued through expression of Gyc-89DaScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Db.3.4. In contrast, expression of Gyc-89DaScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9 fails to suppress the sucrose ambivalence phenotype.
Gyc-89Dae01821/Gyc-89DbMB03197 double mutants exhibit a significantly reduced response to 2.5mM caffeine, more so than in either single mutant.
The defect in the hypoxia escape response that is seen in Gyc-89DbMB03197 larvae is rescued by expression of Gyc-89DaScer\UAS.cVa under the control of either Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9 or Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Db.3.4.
The failure to change larval exploratory behaviour that is seen in Gyc-89DbMB03197 larvae downshifted from 21 to 19% oxygen or upshifted from 21 to 25% oxygen is rescued by expression of Gyc-89DaScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Db.3.4, but is not rescued by expression of Gyc-89DaScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9.
The preference for sucrose in Gyc-89DbMB03197 or Gyc-89DbMB03197/Gyc-89Dae01821 double mutants can be rescued through expression of Gyc-89DbScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Db.3.4. In contrast, expression of Gyc-89DbScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9 fails to suppress the sucrose ambivalence phenotype.
The loss of caffeine avoidance behaviour at low concentrations of caffeine in Gyc-89DbMB03197 mutants is rescued by expressing Gyc-89DbScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9.
The defect in the hypoxia escape response that is seen in Gyc-89DbMB03197 larvae is rescued by expression of Gyc-89DbScer\UAS.cVa under the control of either Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9 or Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Db.3.4.
The failure to change larval exploratory behaviour that is seen in Gyc-89DbMB03197 larvae downshifted from 21 to 19% oxygen or upshifted from 21 to 25% oxygen is rescued by expression of Gyc-89DbScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Db.3.4, but is not rescued by expression of Gyc-89DbScer\UAS.cVa under the control of Scer\GAL4Gyc-89Da.1.9.