Amino acid replacement: K239term.
Nucleotide substitution: A931T.
A6605067T
A931T
K239term | zpg-PA; K239term | zpg-PB
K239term
spectrosome | ectopic (with zpgz-5352)
zpgz-5352/zpgz-2533 testes are rudimentary and have a significant reduction in male germline stem cell number compared with controls. Many zpgz-5352/zpgz-2533 mutant testes do not contain GSCs at 1 day post eclosion but most contain germ cells. zpgz-5352/zpgz-2533 mutant testes display a large increase in somatic cyst stem cells and early-stage somatic cells, and a significant decrease in late-stage somatic cells compared with controls. There is a significant increase in the number of proliferating somatic cells, but the number of proliferating somatic cyst stem cells is decreased. Cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion is unaffected in zpg null testes.
In zpgz-5352/zpgz-2533 testes, 2-cell stage spermatogonia display ectopic spectrosomes alongside early fusomes, indicating defective germline differentiation, and germline cyst encapsulation was defective.
Mutant ovaries contain an average of only 6 +/- 0.3 germline cells per germarium.
The expression of zpgT:Avic\GFP is able to fully rescue the spermatogenesis phenotype of zpgz-5352/zpgz-2533 and restore fertility to wild-type levels.
B. Wakimoto D. Lindsley C. Zuker
Strong allele. zpgz-2533 and zpgz-2552 have identical changes in the zpg coding region but zpgz-2552 has slightly more germ cells in the gonad.