Homozygous kek5fe148 mutants produce fertile adults. However, the mutant imagos exhibit decreased viability.
kek5fe148 and kek5fe148/kek5Δ1 mutant wings exhibit defects in crossvein patterning with a penetrance of about 25-30%. The frequency of crossvein defects is enhanced by hemizygosity over Df(1)Exel7468 or Df(1)JA27. kek5fe148 mutant crossvein defects include truncated or missing posterior crossvein, twigging or forking of the crossvein, ectopic posterior crossvein material, meandering posterior crossvein and ectopic crossveins around the anterior crossvein. The anterior crossvein is rarely deleted or truncated in kek5Δ1 mutants; more often partial or full-length ectopic crossveins appear adjacent to the anterior crossvein.
kek5fe148 mutant wings display blisters at low frequency (less than 5%) when homo- or hemizygous, or when either placed over deficiencies for the region Df(1)Exel7468 or Df(1)JA27.
kek5fe148/kek5fe148 is an enhancer of visible phenotype of Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1, sogUAS.cYa
kek5fe148/kek5fe148 is a suppressor of visible phenotype of Scer\GAL4ap-md544, tkv1AΔGS.UAS.Tag:HA
kek5fe148/kek5fe148 is an enhancer of crossvein phenotype of Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1, sogUAS.cYa
kek5fe148/kek5fe148 is a suppressor of wing vein L4 phenotype of Scer\GAL4ap-md544, tkv1AΔGS.UAS.Tag:HA
kek5fe148/kek5fe148 is a suppressor of wing cell phenotype of Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1, sogsupersog1.UAS
The ectopic crossvein phenotype in wings expressing sogScer\UAS.cYa driven by Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1 is enhanced by kek5fe148. A full-length ectopic crossvein appears between L4 and L5 in 33% of wings expressing sogScer\UAS.cYa driven by Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1 in a homozygous kek5fe148 background.
A homozygous kek5fe148 genetic background suppresses the wing vein L4 phenotypes engendered by Scer\GAL4ap-md544 driven expression of tkv1AΔGS.Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1.
The loss of intervein area between L4 and L5 resulting from expression of sogsupersog1.Scer\UAS with Scer\GAL4ptc-559.1 in the wing is suppressed in a homozygous kek5fe148 mutant background.