The P{GSV6}tombGS12862 insertion maps within both tomb and Cap-D3 (overlapping genes on opposite strands). The insertion is within codon 174 of tomb and within the Cap-D3 3'UTR. The male sterility phenotype of the P{GSV6}tombGS12862 insertion is due to an effect on tomb and not Cap-D3 as transheterozygotes of P{GSV6}tombGS12862 with Cap-D3EY00456 are male fertile.
nuclear chromosome & primary spermatocyte
Mutant testes contain morphologically normal stages of spermatogenesis, up to and including mature primary spermatocytes, but no meiotic division or post-meiotic stages.
Chromosomes in mutant primary spermatocytes are apposed to the nuclear envelope (as occurs in wild-type primary spermatocytes), but they are fuzzier and less well defined than in wild type.
tombGS12862 is rescued by tombUAS.EGFP/Scer\GAL4VP16.bam
Excision of the insertion in tombGS12862 can result in full reversion of the mutant phenotype.