The penetrance of the female sterile and rough eye phenotypes in cutletrJ865a/Df(2L)ed1 flies is more than 99%. The penetrance of the wing phenotype is 38%. Homozygous eyes contain numerous ommatidial clusters with less than the normal number of photoreceptor cells. The positions of the missing cells suggest that they correspond to presumptive photoreceptors R1, R6 and R7. Homozygous clones grow more slowly than their wild-type twin spots in the eye, wing and leg discs.
cutletrJ865a has visible | recessive phenotype, enhanceable by RfC38k13807/RfC38[+]
cutletrJ865a has ommatidium phenotype, enhanceable by RfC38k13807/RfC38[+]
cutletrJ865a has eye photoreceptor cell phenotype, enhanceable by RfC38k13807/RfC38[+]
cutletrJ865a has ommatidium phenotype, enhanceable by RfC40[+]/RfC4B6
cutletrJ865a has eye photoreceptor cell phenotype, enhanceable by RfC40[+]/RfC4B6
The cutletrJ865a eye phenotype is enhanced by one copy of RfC40B6 or RfC38k13807; the majority of ommatidial clusters in these flies have an abnormal number of photoreceptor cells and a large number of ommatidia are fused.
Induced with: P{PZ}rJ865b. The recessive lethal "l(2)rJ865" line originally contained two P{PZ} insertions; P{PZ}cutletrJ865a at 24B1--24B2 and the putatively lethal P{PZ}rJ865b insertion at 33E7--33E8.
Excision of the P{PZ} element can revert the phenotype to wild type.