hot-5 encodes a predicted membrane-associated protein that is a member of the Ly-6 superfamily of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked signaling proteins and is homologous to ODR-2, a neuronally expressed protein required for olfaction; as loss of hot-5 activity via RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) does not result in any abnormalities, the precise role of HOT-5 in C. elegans development and/or behavior is not yet known.
Sequence connection from [Chou JH, Bargmann CI, Sengupta P]
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.