C to T nucleotide substitution which changes amino acid Q212 to a stop codon in the B isoform and changes amino acid Q246 to a stop codon in the A and C isoforms.
C13950378T
C?T
Q246term | AGO1-PA; Q212term | AGO1-PB; Q246term | AGO1-PC; Q246term | AGO1-PD
Q246term
Reported as Q246 in isoforms AGO1-RA and AGO1-RC and Q212 in isoform AGO1-RB.
Homozygous female germline clones result in variable loss of the oocyte. 66% of egg chambers lack an oocyte at 7 days after eclosion. The most commonly observed developmental arrest amongst egg chambers lacking an oocyte is at 8 nurse cells.
AGO1k08121/AGO1EMS females in which expression of AGO1hs.PK via daily heat shock has been used to provide AGO1 function until eclosion have normal ovaries 3 days after eclosion. However, at 15 days old these flies show strong defects in germline stem cell maintenance in the germaria: only 10.3% of germaria have a normal looking structure containing two stem cells, 26.5% contain a single stem cell, 60.3% contain differentiated germ cells with branched fusomes only and 2.9% contain no germ cells at all.
AGO1k08121/AGO1EMS germline stem cell clones are lost from the ovary at a faster rate than marked control clones.