Sgk3^fz-ica

A spontaneous mutant identified in the Genetics Laboratory at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Iasi, Romania, this mutant was determinied to be an allele at the fz locus via complementation analysis. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of mutant DNA detected an excessively long mRNA that was shown to be the product of abnormal RNA splicing consequent to insertion of a class II retrotransposon into the third intron. (J:125551)