The elo-3 gene encodes a paralog of elo-1 and elo-2, each of which encodes a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) elongase; ELO-3 may be required for normally rapid growth.
Predicted to enable fatty acid elongase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid biosynthetic process and sphingolipid biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Expressed in tail. Is an ortholog of human ELOVL3 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 3) and ELOVL6 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6).
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.