daf-36 encodes a protein homologous to the catalytic subunit of Rieske-like oxygenases; DAF-36 functions in a hormone biosynthetic pathway producing a ligand for the DAF-12 nuclear receptor that regulates the developmental decision between reproductive growth and dauer formation; a daf-36::gfp reporter fusion is expressed in the intestine, the head mesodermal cell, two unidentified head neurons (not XXXR/L) and, in dauers, the lateral seam cells; DAF-36 localizes to the cytoplasm in the intestine and to a cytosolic meshwork in dauer seam cells.
Predicted to enable oxidoreductase activity. Predicted to be involved in cholesterol metabolic process. Located in cytoplasm. Expressed in head mesodermal cell; intestine; neurons; and seam cell.
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.