Transheterozygotes are female sterile and semi-lethal, exhibit rough eyes and bristle defects, brain defects and meiosis is mostly normal (motile sperm) with some nondisjunction. Homozygous lethality occurs during larval and pupal stages. Heterozygotes with Df(3R)Hdγ1 are viable but female sterile.
rl1 recessively enhances the eye and wing defects associated with the asp1/aspDD3 mutant. rlSu14 and Dsor1Su1 dominantly suppress the morphological defects and sterility of asp1/aspDD3 mutants. Survival of embryos from asp1/aspDD3 females is increased in double mutants with Dsor1Su1, fewer have no nuclei.
Phenotype assayed in trans with a multiple mutant chromosome carrying mutations of polo, mgr, asp, stg and gnu.