Homozygous mutant clones cause vein-loss phenotypes, sometimes extending a few cells outside the clone boundary. In other cases, vein truncation is rescued within the border of the clone. These reciprocal forms of local cell non-autonomy appear to depend on the shape of the clone, an island of cells tend to take on the vein phenotype associated with the surrounding cells. Homozygous mutant clones on the dorsal side of the wing tend to remove both dorsal and ventral components of the wing vein, however ventral clones generally only affect the ventral components. Homozygous Minute clones reveal that wing veins L1, L2, L3, and L4 are often almost completely eliminated, though for L3, and L4 only the distal halves of the vein are typically affected. The anterior marginal vein L1 is never affected. The overall pattern of vein loss is very similar to rho6 clones, though clones lacking SX155 seem to have slightly stronger vein-loss phenotypes extending more proximally than rho6.
Projection patterns of retinal axons in heterozygous larvae are indistinguishable from wild type.
Clonal analysis of Star alleles shows that the progression of the morphogenetic furrow is delayed and dpp expression was inhibited near the clones.
Homozygous clones in the eye are always associated with a scar, surrounded by normal ommatidia of mixed genotype.
SX155, Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096 is a suppressor of wing vein | ectopic phenotype of Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096, stetUAS.cGa
SX155/S[+] is a suppressor | partially of wing vein | ectopic phenotype of Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096, rhoUAS.cBa
SX155 is a suppressor of wing vein | ectopic | somatic clone phenotype of Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096, rhoUAS.cBa
The addition of SX155 to stetScer\UAS.cGa, Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096 flies almost completely suppresses the ectopic vein phenotype seen in these flies.
Overexpression of rhoScer\UAS.cBa driven by Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096 in SX155 homozygous clones, produced a SX155 type phenotype, the rhoScer\UAS.cBa induced solid wing phenotype is completely suppressed.
Suppresses the retinal axon phenotype caused by argos257.
Analysis of ommatidia of mixed genotype at the edge of clones in the eye indicates that photoreceptor cells R2, R5 and R8 require the S gene product for normal development, but photoreceptor cells R1, R3, R4, R6 and R7 do not.