vit-5 encodes a vitellogenin, a lipid-binding protein precursor related to vertebrate vitellogenins and mammalian ApoB-100, a core LDL particle constituent; by homology, VIT-5 is predicted to function as a lipid transport protein; loss of vit-5 activity via large-scale RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) screens indicates that VIT-5 is required for embryogenesis and normal rates of postembryonic growth; VIT-5 is a major yolk component and is expressed exclusively in the adult hermaphrodite intestine from which it is secreted into the pseudocoelomic space and taken up by oocytes.
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.