Mutation affecting a germ-line promoter.
female sterile (with sqdix50)
female sterile (with sqdix77)
Eggs laid by females homozygous for sqd1 display severe dorsal-ventral patterning defects, they are strongly dorsalised and are not fertilised. Embryos from sqd1 females expressing the sqdS transgene, show distinct anterior-posterior patterning defects characterised by head defects and deletion of anterior structures. Cuticle preparations from sqdS ; sqd1/Df(3R)urd females exhibit a range of anterior defects. These embryos do not have posterior patterning defects, as they all have the correct number of abdominal segments. Embryos from sqd1 females expressing the sqdA isoform do not show these anterior patterning defects, nor do they have posterior group phenotypes, indicating that the sqdA can at least partially rescue the dorsal-ventral patterning defects of sqd1 embryos.
Of the eggs laid by sqd1/sqdK12 transheterozygotes, around 50 % exhibit some degree of dorsalisation: the least affected have widely spaced dorsal appendage and an enlarged operculum; intermediately affected have a single broad appendage that spans at least the width of the normal appendages; severely affected (<5%) have a crown of appendage material that surrounds the anterior circumference of the egg. In sqd1/sqd1 females, nurse cell chromosomes fail to disperse after stage 6, but instead arrest in the blob like conformation typical at stage 6 of oogenesis.
Homozygous females produce dorsalised eggs which have dorsal appendage material expanding to the ventral side of the eggshell and which lack the dorsal midline cells (which are normally found between the dorsal appendages).
Embryos are strongly dorsalised. Hemizygotes are female sterile.
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg chorion phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203
sqd1/sqdK12 has dorsal appendage phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg operculum phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg operculum phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg chorion phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C377/Hrb27C02647
sqd1/sqdK12 has dorsal appendage phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C377/Hrb27C02647
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg operculum phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C377/Hrb27C02647
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C377/Hrb27C02647
sqd1/sqdK12 has egg chorion phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413
sqd1/sqdK12 has dorsal appendage phenotype, enhanceable by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413
Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203, sqd1/sqdK12 has nurse cell & nuclear chromosome phenotype
Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413, sqd1/sqdK12 has nurse cell & nuclear chromosome phenotype
Dorsalisation of the eggs laid by sqd1/sqdK12 transheterozygotes is enhanced by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203, so that >98% show some degree of dorsalisation, and by Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413 or Hrb27C02647/Hrb27C377, so that 100% show some degree of dorsalisation. In sqd1/sqdK12; Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck10413 and sqd1/sqdK12; Hrb27C10280/Hrb27Ck16203 females, nurse cell chromosomes fail to disperse after stage 6, but instead arrest in the blob like conformation typical at stage 6 of oogenesis. otu104 suppresses the penetrance of the chromosome morphology phenotype of sqd1 homozygous nurse cells from 98% to 17% (1 copy) or 8% (2 copies) of egg chambers.
The failure of chromosome dispersal after stage 6 in the nurse cells of sqd1 homozygous females is reduced from 97% penetrance to 86% by 2XsqdA, 46% by 2XsqdB and 39% by 2XsqdS. Rescue is more effective when 2 isoforms are combined: sqdA + sqdB reduces penetrance to 4%, as does sqdB + sqdS; sqdA + sqdS reduces penetrance to 8%.
Full fertility and normal polarity was restored by P-element excision by Jumpstart.