Able to initiate female development, but is defective in its ability to maintain the female developmental commitment and/or to elicit female sexual differentiation. It is masculinizing in homozygous mutant somatic clones induced by mitotic recombination and it causes the tissue in such clones to grow poorly; nevertheless, it has no dominant effect on the sexual phenotype of triploid intersexes, nor does it interact in a dominant fashion with mutations in da or sisA, both early acting positive regulators of Sxl. Fully complements Sxlf9, which appears to have a very different set of defects.
SxlfLS is a suppressor of decreased fecundity | dominant | female phenotype of ovoD2
SxlfLS, fl(1)3535 has partially lethal | female phenotype
SxlfLS, fl(1)3546 has partially lethal | female phenotype
SxlfLS, l(1)4343 has partially lethal | female phenotype
SxlF1.hs can rescue 94% female lethality but the females are sterile.
XO male clones generated at the larval stage in SxlfLS/+ females are only viable if they contain the SxlfLS mutation.
Complements Sxlf9, and partially complements Sxlf2 for female viability. Defective in Sxl Pm-mediated activities - the later functions governing maintenance and expression of the female-committed developmental state. Shows dominant masculinizing interactions with snf that are as strong as for a Sxl deficiency.
Nuclei of SxlfLS/Sxlf2593 larvae exhibit binding of the msl gene products to the paired X chromosomes but no Sxl binding.
Defective in the maintenance of Sxl function.