Lacks blood cells in hematopoietic organs and lacks plasmatocytes and crystal cells in blood. Polytene chromosomes in nuclei of optic lobe neuroblasts.
Cytokinesis in primordial larval blood cells and adult optic neuroblasts in the embryonic larval brain fails.
l(3)hem1/l(3)hem1 is a suppressor | partially of melanotic mass phenotype phenotype of Dp(3;3)Karel
l(3)hem1/l(3)hem1 is a non-suppressor of abnormal developmental rate phenotype of Dp(3;3)Karel
l(3)hem1/l(3)hem1 is a suppressor | partially of embryonic/larval fat body phenotype of Dp(3;3)Karel
l(3)hem1/l(3)hem1 is a suppressor | partially of embryonic/larval hemocyte phenotype of Dp(3;3)Karel
l(3)hem1/l(3)hem1 is a suppressor | partially of melanotic mass phenotype of Dp(3;3)Karel
l(3)hem1/l(3)hem1 is a non-suppressor of pupal abdomen phenotype of Dp(3;3)Karel
l(3)hem1 suppresses some of the Dp(3;3)Karel mutant phenotypes; the number of circulating hemocytes in late third instar l(3)hem1 Dp(3;3)Karel double mutant larvae is significantly reduced compared to Dp(3;3)Karel single mutant larvae. In addition, only 40% of the double mutant larvae show disintegration of the fat body compared to 90% of Dp(3;3)Karel single mutants, and only 55% of the double mutant larvae have melanotic tumours compared to more than 83% of Dp(3;3)Karel single mutants. The delay in development, block in pupariation and abnormal shape of Dp(3;3)Karel pupae are not suppressed by l(3)hem1.
DNA synthesis is not inhibited within primordial larval blood cells, in the adult optic neuroblasts many rounds of DNA synthesis occur without cytokinesis.