Partial excision of the P-element and deletion into exon 1a.
so9 flies have small eyes with reduced ocelli. At the larval stage, the eye field is reduced and neurogenesis arrests, first along the margins of the eye disc, and then in the centre.
Homozygotes have slightly reduced and roughened eyes. The optic lobe primordium of homozygotes is reduced in size and movement into the head cavity is arrested at an early stage so it fails to invaginate.
Df(2L)eya10, so9/so3 has spermatocyte phenotype
Significant levels of spermatocyte degeneration is seen in the testes of Df(2L)eya10 so9/so3 adults and pharate adults.
Mutant eye phenotype can be rescued by heat induced expression of so (repetitive heat shocks during third instar).