The inserted segment contains the entire 40 kb walk of McLachlan.
"f[m]" flies (fX Tp(1;1)f+ih double mutant) show a variable phenotype; many have an ordinary f mutant phenotype, but a high percentage show coherent patches of the body, often of considerable size, in which the bristles are normal. Occasionally, almost the whole fly appears wild type.
Tp(1;1)f+ih with any f allele has normalizing effect. Patches of bristles and occasionally whole fly is wild type. An extra Y chromosome enhances the normalizing effect.
Muller.
f[X] plus Tp(1;1)f[+ih] denoted "f[m]: forked-mottled". Apparently, Tp(1;1)f+ih is all or part of the normal allele of f transposed to the proximal heterochromatin of the X chromosome, where it variegates. The sequences remaining in the original position behave as a hypomorph of f, fX. Oster, Erlich and Muller (1957) argue that the sum of sequences inserted in the heterochromatin plus those remaining behind exceeds the normal sequential content of f[+].
Polytene chromosomes apparently normal (J.I. Valencia).