The dpp cDNA E55 (FBrf0047083) is flanked by dpp 3' sequences extending beyond the polyadenylation site, and expressed from an Hsp70 promoter.
In mutant heat shocked wing discs, cytonemes project outwards in all directions from examined cells. This contrasts with wild-type where cytonemes only project towards the anterior posterior or dorsal ventral axes. These cytonemes are significantly shorter than those seen in wild-type, averaging 10.6μm in length. Cells in the hinge domain, which normally do not extend cytonemes, extend them in apparently random directions.
Animals with 8 copies of P{hs-dpp.BP} show an increase in single germ-cell numbers per germarium after heat shock.
Heat induction of dpp expression during a broad period of oogenesis leads to dorsalization of the embryonic cuticle. A high percentage of eggs from these females remain unfertilized. Overexpression during stage 10 leads to defects in patterning in the AP axis of egg shell structures.
Ectopic dpp expression causes the formation of egg chambers containing multiplicity of 16 germ-line cells, which may be caused by the enveloping of two or more germ-line cysts by invaginating follicle cells into a single egg chamber.
58% of females carrying eight copies of dppBP.hs show vastly enlarged opercula, and nearly all have abnormal dorsal appendages, indicative of expanded anterior eggshell domains.
Heat induced expression during larval or pre-pupal stages has little effect on wing venation. Heat shocks delivered between 16 and 28 hours cause severe ectopic vein phenotype and between 28 and 40 hours blister phenotype. Heat shocks administered after 44 hours have no effect.
dppBP.hs has germline stem cell | increased number phenotype, suppressible by zpgunspecified/zpgunspecified
dppBP.hs is a suppressor | heat sensitive | maternal effect | partially of embryonic epidermis phenotype of Dp(2;1)G146, Tl3
The increase in single germ-cell numbers per germarium of 8xP{hs-dpp.BP} animals after heat shock is suppressed by zpgunspecified/zpgunspecified.