Deletion in 5'part of dia coding region.
The approximate boundaries of the dia3 deletion map to a BamHI-XbaI restriction fragment; the position of the restriction fragment on the reference sequence was inferred by a FlyBase curator.
contractile ring & meiotic cell cycle | male
larval central nervous system & neuroblast
spindle & meiotic cell cycle | male
The central spindle is severely defective in the first meiotic division in homozygous testes, and the actin ring is usually missing.
Early pupal lethality and reduced imaginal discs in third instar larvae. Larval neuroblasts show high levels of polyploidy and significantly fewer mitotic figures than wild type, however the fraction of mitotic figures in anaphase is the same as in wild type.
One of 17 alleles isoalted in a reversion screen of dia1.