Construct: Amino acid replacement: K129. 500bp mutated spi fragment (encoding only the extracellular fragment of the protein) cloned downstream of a sev@ promoter fragment (-967 to +89bp, FBrf0050856).
Flies have abnormal eyes and a few ommatidia have ectopic outer photoreceptors or R7 cell. Later there is more dramatic overrecruitment of cone and pigment cells in pupal retinas.