Shown to be a deficiency based on failure to hybridize in situ with clones derived from this region.
Proximal break of Df(2R)bw5 breaks in the coding region of the bw gene, deleting the 5' end.
abnormal eye color
lethal | recessive
pigment cell
Eye colour: purpleoidlike in combination with bw4. Eye colour: light yellowish brown in combination with bw1. RK2A.
Mohr, 28th Nov. 1931.