Heat shock every 4 hours for 30 minutes starting 24 hours before and lasting 12 hours after the white prepupal stage can completely rescue the sev14 mutant phenotype. Heat shock every 8 hours causes a minor portion of ommatidia lacking R7 cells, heat shock every 12 hours causes well defined stripes of sev- ommatidia and wild type ommatidia. Induction of sev 12 hours after white prepupae formation is the last time point that rescues anterior most ommatidia columns.
Induction of the construct every 4 hours for 30 minutes completely rescues the sev14 mutant phenotype. Rescue is not seen without heat shock.
Basler and Hafen.