Homozygotes exhibit a significant reduction in DLM size.
Homozygotes are flightless, and have a normal wing posture.
Trident pattern on thorax replaced by broad light gray stripe at 25oC; stripe is dark at 18oC or in the presence of heterozygous or homozygous b or e. Homozygotes are flightless (Levine and Wyman, 1973) and show a reduction in size of a specific indirect flight muscle, the dorsal longitudinal muscle (DLM). The DLM is absent from sr1/Df(3R)sr- adults. Early development of the indirect flight muscles is normal, but in the thirty-five-hour pupa the DLM begins to degenerate leading to its absence in adults (Costello and Wyman, 1986).
Bridges, Feb. 1922.