The Df(2R)cn87e chromosome does not act as a dominant 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).

Recovered as apparent cn double recombinants from test crosses of dysgenic-type males that were heterozygous for a maternally derived dp b cn bw second chromosome and paternally derived autosomes extracted from natural populations and capable of promoting male recombination.