FlyBase curator comment: this entry is used to capture phenotypic information when the particular allele (or allele combination) used by the author could not be determined but the context of the experiment suggests that the phenotype being described is some kind of loss of function.
Meiotic crossing-over is reduced by a factor of 1/12 in homozygous females. The frequency of gene conversion at the ry locus is unaffected in homozygous females.
Mutants are recombination defective. Mutants do not show sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate, nitrogen mustard, UV light, γ rays or X rays. Mutants are not defective in repair of single strand breaks, excision repair or post-replication repair. Homozygotes and hemizygotes do not show an increased frequency of spontaneous chromosome aberrations in neuroblast metaphases compared to wild-type larvae.
mei-218unspecified is rescued by mei-218+t15