Normal looking individualisation complexes (ICs) are seen in the testes of X/kl-361 males. Spermatid tails show irregularities.
Male sterile in combination with Ts(1Lt;YSt)W27, Ts(1Lt;YSt)E15 or Ts(1Lt;YSt)F12. Male fertile in combination with Ts(1Lt;YSt)V24, Ts(1Lt;YLt)V8 or Ts(1Lt;YLt)W19. kl-361 testes show degradation in the basal testicular region. Sperm are absent from the seminal vesicles. Postmeiotic nuclei show almost normal nuclear condensation, except for the appearance of occasional singular needle-shaped nuclear heads. The organised bundles of the elongated sperm heads are eventually disintegrated in the basal region of the testis before the spermatids reach maturity. Defects are seen in the flagellar axoneme; the outer arm dyneins are lost of greatly reduced.
Male sterile phenotype can be reverted in the presence of a transposase source.