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.
Homozygotes die as late larvae or early pupae. They show defects in cellular proliferation, eye-brain complex shows a marked decrease in size.
swmunspecified is a suppressor of phenotype of rux3
Fails to suppress the meiotic defect of rux8.