[Napier JA] No mutants known. Encodes predicted delta6 fatty acid desaturase, protein expressed in yeast confers ability to desaturate linoleic acid to gamma-linolenic acid.
Extracted from Napier et al. (1998), fat-4 assigned as gene name.
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.