Doa^E786/Doa⁴ XX females show somatic sex transformations. The flies exhibit typical female pigmentation but a male clasper, female vaginal structures and the female genital sex comb.

The ovaries of Doa^E786/Doa^Dem mutant flies appear normal, despite asymmetry in the female genital sex combs.

Doa⁷/Doa^E786 mutants exhibit defects in the mesothoracic tarsi.

In Doa⁶/Doa^E786 mutants where the Doa⁶ allele is from the mother only females are recovered. The flies have rough eyes, duplicated postalar bristles, missing scutellar bristles and disorganisation of the vaginal bristles. When the Doa^E786 allele comes from the mother there are no survivors.

Doa^E786 is a suppressor of phenotype of w^a