Reduction in size of all bristles, 'spineless' phenotype.
No effect on geotaxis as measured in a Hirsch-type geotaxis maze.
Bristles only a little larger than hairs; dorsocentrals least reduced; postscutellars erect. No effect on legs or aristae. Growth of bristles slows during development (Lees and Waddington, 1943). Dominant to aristapedia phenotype of all ssa alleles. RK1.
Bridges, 3rd Jan. 1914.