54F2;56A1

F. Karim.

The Df(2R)RM2-1 chromosome acts as a dominant moderate suppressor of telomeric silencing (assayed using the effect of the chromosome on the eye colour phenotype of flies carrying "P{w^var}KR3-2", a stable "brown-red" variant of the P{3'WP-2,w^var}2Lt insertion), but this is a false positive result (the suppressor is not within the bounds of the deficient region) because the region of the deficiency is covered by a combination of nonsuppressing deficiencies and deficiencies with suppressors that map to the 2L tip.