No mutation has been found in any Top2 protein coding exon.
viable (with Df(2L)Exel9043)
viable (with Df(2L)VA17)
metaphase & condensed nuclear chromosome & spermatocyte
suo2 prometaphase and metaphase I figures are normal, but anaphases and telophases are characterised by the presence of chromatin bridges. As a result of these bridges, in 29% of suo2 ana-telophase I cells, all the chromosomes segregate to one pole only, giving rise to chromosome-free secondary spermatocytes. suo2 secondary spermatocytes devoid of chromosomes form a bipolar spindle that undergoes the same dynamic transformations seen in chromosome-containing spindles.
Isolated in a cytological screen of a collection of male sterile mutants.