Part of endogenous ssp3 is replaced with an attP site followed by a loxP-flanked Disc\RFP3xP3.cUa marker.
Estimated location of a mutation in which part of the ssp3 coding sequence is replaced with an attP site followed by a loxP-flanked Disc\RFP3xP3.cUa marker. The extent of the deletion was mapped as the region between the sgRNA sequences.
viable (with Df(2L)ED1203)
Very few (if any) ssp3M1 onion stage spermatids are normal; most nuclei and nebenkerne are of very different sizes and the nucleus-nebenkern association is often disrupted. Virtually all meiotic divisions are abnormal: microtubules emanating from the centrosomes do not appear to interact properly with the chromosomes, so that the chromosomes are dispersed and sometimes found outside the spindle; several meiosis II spindles are 'empty' while other meiosis II spindles appear to contain more than four chromosomes; spermatids are unable to form regular central spindles.