P{lwB} insertion within the 5' exon.
interommatidial bristle & eye | precursor
Heterozygotes show a direct effect on the shape of the wing.
When homozygous mutant clones are made in the eye, although many of the mutant ommatidia have too many photoreceptors, a significant proportion have the correct number. many of these ommatidia are misrotated.
Mutant eye discs show, in addition to the extra R-cell phenotype, severe ommatidial rotation defects, though the initial 45oC rotation seen in wild-type is less affected.
The number of midline glia cells is increased to an average of 5.1 +/- 0.2 cells per segment in homozygous embryos.
Retinal degeneration in aging flies.
Mutant ommatidia have extra pigment cells.
Reduced viability and rough eye phenotype, including blistering in the posterior region of the eye due to a lawn of undifferentiated cells in the pupal eye. Eyes have abnormal rhabdomere morphology and extra outer photoreceptors. Optic lobes are small and disorganised. Many of the mystery cells start differentiating as neurons and never leave the developing ommatidia. Extra cone cells and an abnormally high number of primary pigment cells are found in the pupal eye. Interommatidial bristle precursors are disorganised though the total number appears to be normal.
aos[+]/aosW11 is an enhancer of visible phenotype of Chmp1GD11219, Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096
argos[+]/aosW11 is an enhancer of visible phenotype of Scer\GAL4en-e16E, Socs44AUAS.cRa
argos[+], aosW11, N[+], N55e11 is a non-enhancer of abnormal planar polarity phenotype of Pcyt116919
aos[+]/aosW11 is an enhancer of wing vein phenotype of Chmp1GD11219, Scer\GAL4Bx-MS1096
argos[+]/aosW11 is an enhancer of wing vein | ectopic phenotype of Scer\GAL4en-e16E, Socs44AUAS.cRa
aosW11 is an enhancer of photoreceptor cell R8 | increased number phenotype of edk01102
argos[+], aosW11, N[+], N55e11 is a non-enhancer of eye photoreceptor cell phenotype of Pcyt116919
argos[+], aosW11, N[+], N55e11 is a non-enhancer of ommatidium phenotype of Pcyt116919
The ectopic wing vein phenotype caused by expression of Socs44AScer\UAS.cRa under the control of Scer\GAL4en-e16E is enhanced by argosW11/+.
No effect on the faf eye phenotype.
Excision of the P{lwB} insertion reverts the mutant phenotype to wild type.
argosW11 chromosome also carries a mutation at chp, chpW11, that causes strong rhabdomere defects. Mutation can be recombined off the chromosome.