No obvious rearrangement as detected by Southern blot.
No obvious morphological defects.
Transheterozygote combinations with other syt alleles are lethal.
Survivors are sluggish as third instar larvae, and severely uncoordinated as adults. Most die within 48hrs of eclosion. Physiological experiments with the larval neuromuscular junction preparation reveal a striking reduction in evoked transmitter release, but no decrease in rate or amount of spontaneous transmitter release.
Isolated on basis of failure to complement Df(2L)DTD2. A few adults survive in transheterozygous combinations between sytT11, sytT77 and syt66.4. The syt alleles form a series: going from most severe to least severe, sytN19 = sytN6 >= sytT7 = sytT41 > sytT77 = syt66.4 > sytT11.
Mutant phenotype can be rescued, when homozygous or in trans to sytN6, by sytelav.PD.