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.
pleunspecified mutant larvae shown virtually no body melanization, and exhibit a defective cuticle, as shown by its excessive permeability to Eosin Y (but an apparently normal autofluorescence upon exposure to 405nm light), as compared to controls.
Somatic clones exhibit an albino phenotype in both cuticle and bristles.
pleunspecified mutant embryos have an unpigmented cuticle and head skeleton.
pleunspecified is rescued by pleΔi5-6
pleunspecified is rescued by ple+t10.988
pleunspecified is partially rescued by pleΔi2-6
pleunspecified is partially rescued by pleΔi1
pleunspecified is partially rescued by pleDdc.PB
pleunspecified is not rescued by pleΔi1-6