Lethality occurs during late larval and pupal stages. Hyperplasia of imaginal discs is not apparent as homozygous larvae or l(2)gd11/l(2)gd13 trans-heterozygous larvae and surviving pharate adults display a low frequency of hypertrophied and duplicated pattern (adult cuticular structures are apparently normal). Some pharate adults exhibited hypertrophies, outgrowths and ingrowths from the last tarsal segment of the legs, in some cases duplication of pattern elements in the wing and antennae. Clones in a Minute background show a loss of venation or abnormal thickening of veins. Occasionally clones have excessive folding of the wing margins and those located in the proximity of the anterior posterior compartment boundary realign the boundary. Clones also have a non-autonomous effect on surrounding wild type cells.
l(2)gd13 has wing | pharate adult stage phenotype, suppressible by vg1
Pharate adult wings of l(2)gd13 vg1 double mutants are partially restored compared to the single homozygotes. Clones in a vg1 homozygous background are recognisable by growths protuding from the wing blade, thus partially restoring the wing pattern by extensions of the wing blade areas (three-fold increase in wing blade area) and a span of clonal tissue in both dorsal and ventral wing surfaces.
Weak allele.