38B3-38B6;40A3
Semilethal and fertile in combination with Df(2L)TW50. Viable and fertile in combination with Df(2L)Sd37.
Shows a dominant, slightly rough eye phenotype.
The Df(2L)pr-M1 chromosome may act as a dominant suppressor of telomeric silencing (assayed using the effect of the chromosome on the eye colour phenotype of flies carrying "P{wvar}KR3-2", a stable "brown-red" variant of the P{3'WP-2,wvar}2Lt insertion), but the eye colour phenotype in the presence of Df(2L)pr-M1 overlaps the eye colour phenotype in a wild-type background so it cannot be unequivocally demonstrated that the deficiency chromosome uncovers a suppressor of telomeric silencing.