[Jan Bradley] We have tested fatty acid and retinol binding of 3 of far-1 to far-6; all are expressed and we have assumed the others are able to bind fatty acids based on sequence similarity. There is a slight problem with the gene finder/genome sequence of F15B9.3 as it predicts the far-5 gene to be continuous with the c terminal of a lag-2 gene. We've tried v hard to see if the whole lag 2/far gene is transcribed and it doesn't seem to be but we can find an sl-far gene transcript with specific primers for the c terminal.
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.