Insertion of a 5.0kb flea element within a 0.25kb EcoRI fragment approximately 1.6kb upstream of the transcription start site.
scutum & macrochaeta
scutum & macrochaeta & trichogen cell
scutum & microchaeta
scutum & microchaeta & trichogen cell
svrugoso-nu/svn flies show loss of hairs.
svspa-20 strongly enhances the bristle phenotype of svn in transheterozygotes; in the eyes there is nearly complete loss of bristle shafts, and in other parts of the body, loss or reduction of the shafts of microchaetae and macrochaetae is more severe than in svn homozygotes. The bristle phenotype of svn mutants is entirely rescued on the notum, partially rescued in the eye and not rescued on the abdomen by sv2.0.cFa.
Extremely short bristles. Viability excellent. Trichogen irregularly displaced, becoming more or less converted into tormogen (Lees and Waddington, 1943). Polarity of microchaetae in vicinity of double sockets disrupted such that they form a whorl around socket (Toney and Thompson, 1980). In triplo-4 svn/svn/svn, the phenotype is more nearly normal than in diplo-4. RK1. Selective advantage for triplo-4 in stocks of svn results in accumulation.
Mohr, 13th Oct. 1931.
The order of severity of the microchaete phenotype is: sv6 = sv7 = sv8 > svde > svn.