Imprecise excision of the P{lacW}tow4938 insertion, resulting in a 7.4kb deletion that removes the entire tow open reading frame (the first noncoding exon and part of the first intron remain) and part of the neighbouring CG10077 gene (sequences encoding 160 amino acids of the 3' end of CG10077-RA are removed).
The wing phenotypes caused by expression of towA1.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4arm.PS are relieved in a tow754 homozygous background.
Homozygotes show a weak increase in the intervein area between wing veins 3 and 4 compared to wild type. The number of campaniform sensilla along wing vein 3 is normal.
Mutant flies show no eye polarity defects.
tow[+]/tow754 is a suppressor | partially of abnormal planar polarity phenotype of Scer\GAL4hs.2sev, fzUAS.cAa
tow754/tow754 is an enhancer of campaniform sensillum of dorsal radius phenotype of ptcConf-1
tow[+]/tow754 is an enhancer of wing hair | increased number phenotype of stanVC31
tow[+]/tow754 is a suppressor | partially of ommatidium phenotype of Scer\GAL4hs.2sev, fzUAS.cAa
ptc16/ptc[+], tow754 has 1st posterior cell phenotype
ptc16/ptc[+], tow754 has campaniform sensillum of dorsal radius phenotype
shaVB13, tow[+]/tow754 has wing hair | increased number phenotype
The planar polarity defects seen in the eyes of animals expressing fzScer\UAS.cAa under the control of Scer\GAL4hs.2sev are almost completely suppressed by tow754/+ (79.7% of ommatidia are correctly rotated).
The multiple wing hair phenotype seen in dsh1/Y flies is suppressed by tow754/+, but the defects in polarity of the hairs is not affected.
The number of multiple wing hairs seen in stanVC31/+ flies is enhanced if they are also carrying tow754/+.
tow754/+ increases the number of small and multiple wing hairs seen in a shaVB13/shaVB13 background.