Stages 10B and early 11 of dorsal appendage morphogenesis proceed normally in bwk151/bwk08482 egg chambers in culture. However, defects are seen in later stages. Anterior extension of the developing dorsal appendage often occurs abnormally; although it may begin normally, the dorsal appendage forming cells do not advance to the anterior of the egg chamber, the two dorsal appendages are often asymmetrical and the lumens are often either bent or expanded. Cultured egg chambers also show other defects including rounded-up and delaminating follicle cells. bwk151/bwk08482 dorsal appendages have an abnormally wide "moose-antler" shape.
Homozygous females lay few eggs. Eggs often appear deflated, are shorter than wild type due to incomplete transfer of nurse cell contents into the oocyte (dumpless phenotype) and they exhibit a number of anterior eggshell defects. The dorsal eggshell filaments are short and broad and have ragged edges and thin chorion (sometimes resembling moose antlers). Phenotype is caused by aberrant follicle cell migration, not follicle cell fate changes or the dumpless phenotype. bwk08482/bwk151 mothers produce many bicaudal embryos. Homozygous females lay few eggs. Eggs often appear deflated, are shorter than wild type due to incomplete transfer of nurse cell contents into the oocyte (dumpless phenotype) and they exhibit a number of anterior eggshell defects. The dorsal eggshell filaments are short and broad and have ragged edges and thin chorion (sometimes resembling moose antlers). Phenotype is caused by aberrant follicle cell migration, not follicle cell fate changes or the dumpless phenotype. Egg chambers from grk2; bwk08482 females have single dorsal filaments, as for grk2 homozygotes, but they resemble bwk filaments, short and ragged. Homozygous embryos are bicaudal. bwk08482/bwk151 mothers produce many bicaudal embryos. Flies in trans with Df(3R)Dl-BX12 exhibit sterility and have similar egg shell defects to bwk08482 homozygotes. In addition these flies have blistered wings.
Eggs have moose-antler-like dorsal appendages. Embryos are bicaudal.
In homozygous females the follicle cells that form the dorsal appendages do not migrate properly resulting in abnormal dorsal appendages that resemble moose antlers. Embryos are bicaudal.
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-enhanceable by bskUAS.cBa/Scer\GAL4c415
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-enhanceable by Scer\GAL4CY2/SharkUAS.cFa
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-enhanceable by sax[+]/sax5
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-enhanceable by dpp10638/dpp[+]
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-enhanceable by bsk2/bsk[+]
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-enhanceable by tkv7/tkv[+]
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, suppressible | partially by Scer\GAL4c415/SharkUAS.cFa
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, suppressible | partially by Scer\GAL455B/SharkUAS.cFa
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4c415/Src42ACA.UAS
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-suppressible by bskUAS.cBa/Scer\GAL4c415
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-suppressible by Scer\GAL4CY2/SharkUAS.cFa
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-suppressible by sax[+]/sax5
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-suppressible by dpp10638/dpp[+]
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-suppressible by bsk2/bsk[+]
bwk151, cic08482 has dorsal appendage phenotype, non-suppressible by tkv7/tkv[+]
The mutant dorsal appendage phenotype seen in bwk151/bwk08482 eggs is partially suppressed by the expression of sharkScer\UAS.cFa under the control of Scer\GAL4c415 or Scer\GAL455B. Expression of sharkScer\UAS.cFa under the control of Scer\GAL4CY2 has little effect on the mutant dorsal appendage phenotype seen in bwk151/bwk08482 eggs. The mutant dorsal appendage phenotype seen in bwk151/bwk08482 eggs is not significantly modified by bsk2/+, dpp10638/+, sax5/+ or tkv7/+. The mutant dorsal appendage phenotype seen in bwk151/bwk08482 eggs is not significantly modified by expression of bskScer\UAS.cBa under the control of Scer\GAL4c415. The mutant dorsal appendage phenotype seen in bwk151/bwk08482 eggs is suppressed by expression of Src42ACA.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4c415.
Complements: cic1.
Excision alleles indicate bwk is important for other developmental processes: some lines are pupal lethal (flies never emerge from the pupal case) and one line has an extra wing vein phenotype.
Excision of the P{PZ} element reverts both the eggshell and embryo phenotypes to wild type indicating the insertion is responsible for the phenotype. Five excision lines have additional phenotypes: in one line wings of homozygous flies curve down and have extra veins and the remaining four are lethal.