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.
Mutant flies show reduced survival compared to wild-type controls after challenge with a needle contaminated with A. tumefaciens.
Bacteria injected into mutant larvae or adults show increased survival compared to those injected into wild type. Phenotype is similar to that shown by ird5 mutants.
Mutant larvae show normal melanisation at a wound site in response to infection and do not have melanotic tumours.
Difunspecified, Relunspecified has abnormal immune response | temperature conditional phenotype
Relunspecified Difunspecified double mutants show no increase in susceptibility compared to wild type when infected with exponential-phase B. thaliandensis at 25[o]C. The double mutant flies are consistently slightly longer lived than controls. When Relunspecified Difunspecified double mutant flies are infected with B. thaliandensis at 18[o]C they die much faster than wild type flies. As in wild type flies, infecting the Relunspecified Difunspecified double mutant flies with mutant forms of B. thaliandensis that affect either the Type II (T3SS) or Type VI (T6SS) secretion systems has no effect on survival compared with wild type B.thaliandensis.