wing cell & wing vein L3 & wing vein L4 | somatic clone
Embryonic segmentation is normal. Transheterozygotes with kn1 enhance the kn1 wing vein phenotype, the veins are extensively fused. This loss of intervein region reduced the length and width of the wings by 80-90%. The transition point between socketed and unsocketed bristles at the wing margin is shifted posteriorly to the shifted position of wing vein L3. Germline clones give rise to fully viable offspring when outcrossed to kn+ sperm and does not alter the larval lethality when fertilised with knKN1, knKN2, knKN3 or knKN4 sperm. Clones generated in adult cuticle are normal unless induced in the anterior compartment of the wing in the intervein region between veins L3 and L4. Clones obey the A-P compartment boundary but when they are induced along the boundary the result is an ectopic or shifted vein with an associated loss of vein L4 in the non-mutant posterior compartment. Clones located at the wing margin generated terminal vein 3 bristles rather than true marginal bristles.