col-39 encodes a collagen that is individually dispensable for viability and gross morphology in mass RNAi screens; the amino- and carboxyl-terminal cysteine-rich regions of COL-39 are most closely related to those of COL-8, COL-19, and COL-35.
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.