The bristle phenotype seen female D.simulans/D.melanogaster hybrids is unaffected by the Dp(1;2)sc19 duplication.
Two copies of the duplication produces neural hyperplasic defects, characteristic of weak neurogenic mutants, of variable extent in the ventral cord.
Partially suppresses hhb.PP female lethality.
Duplication has only a weak effect on the number of chaetae in the presence of h and emc wild type alleles. In h and emc mutant homozygous flies the increase in chaetae is proportional to the doses of the achaete-scute complex.