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. 2012 Oct 15;11(1):A139–A148.

Table 1A.

Behavior mutants with easily measureable electrophysiological phenotypes.

Name Behavior Phenotype Electrophysiology phenotype Gene product(s) Bloomington Stock number Reference
ether-a-go-go Slow locomotion, shaking under ether anesthesia Spontaneous Excitatory Junction Potentials at larval neuromuscular junction (NMJ) transient voltage gated potassium channel subunits 3561 (Wu et al., 1983)
slowpoke Slow locomotion Prolonged action potentials in flight muscles Calcium activated potassium channel 4587 (Elkins et al., 1986);
http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/hjmuller/slowpk1.htm
no receptor potential Blind / near blind Reduced response in electroretinagram phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PLC) 5685 (Pak et al., 1970);
http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/hjmuller/norpa1.htm
Or83b (null mutant) Cannot smell No response to odors in electroantenngrams G-Protein coupled odorant receptor 23129 (Larsson et al., 2004);
http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/hjmuller/or83b-1.htm
skywalker Larvae rear off substrate Reduced response in electroretinagram; increased neurotransmitter release at NMJ GTPase activating protein N/A (Uytterhoeven et al., 2011)
Nanchung (null mutant) deaf Antennal sound evoked potentials absent Vanilloid receptor subfamily of transient receptor potential cation channels 24902 (Kim et al., 2003; Gong et al., 2004);