fig-1 encodes a predicted extracellular protein containing conserved thrombospondin TSP1 domains; FIG-1 function is required cell nonautonomously for sensory organ function as measured by dye filling and behavioral assays; a fig-1::GFP promoter fusion is expressed in amphid and phasmid sheath glial cells from late embryogenesis through adulthood; as fig-1(RNAi) can produce defects at all stages of development and fig-1 mRNA is highly expressed, FIG-1 is likely to be a labile protein that plays a nonstructural role in regulating neuronal function.
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.