A 15kb genomic fragment containing sqd, in which the alternatively spliced exons have been replaced with the corresponding region of a cDNA encoding the sqdB isoform.
Expression of the sqdB isoform is not sufficient to rescue the dorsal-ventral patterning defects found in sqd1 mutants, such that the eggs remain unfertilised.
The nurse cell chromosome defect seen in sqd1 homozygotes is partially rescued by 2 copies of sqdB, amd almost completely rescued by sqdB + sqdA or + sqdS.
Fails to rescue the dorsoventral patterning defects of eggs derived from homozygous sqd1 females. Partially rescues the lethality of sqdix50/Df(3R)urd.