female sterile (with tsrntf)
male sterile | heat sensitive (with tsrntf)
aster & primary spermatocyte cyst
aster & secondary spermatocyte
nurse cell & nucleus (with tsrntf)
oocyte & actin filament | ectopic | germ-line clone
Terminal filaments are present in the larval ovary of tsr1 homozygotes and tsr1/tsr2 animals. tsr1/tsrntf animals are semi-viable at 25oC; only males survive and are sterile. At 18oC, these animals are viable and some males are fertile, while females are sterile and show defects in border cell migration. The border cell migration defects are more severe at higher temperatures. Some egg chambers show "dumping" of nurse cell nuclei into the oocyte at 25oC. Terminal filaments are present in the larval ovary of tsr1/tsrntf animals.
At early stages of oogenesis actin filaments are seen in clumps throughout the tsr mutant egg chamber.
Mutant spermatid cysts contain two types of ring canals (RCs); normally-sized RCs and RCs that are smaller than wild type (23% of total). The fusome reforms in mutant spermatid cysts but it is often interrupted and fails to connect all the extant RCs.
Homozygotes die at the larval/pupal transition.
A significant proportion of homozygous and tsr1/tsr2 larval neuroblasts are polyploid. The mitotic index and number of mitotic cells in anaphase is nearly normal, and chromosomes appear morphologically normal. The two asters of homozygous primary spermatocytes remain in close proximity to each other at the M1a stage, and do not associate with the nuclear envelope. After the M1 stage, the asters progressively resume a relatively normal position and the spermatocytes appear indistinguishable from wild-type throughout the remainder of the first meiotic division. Prophase/prometaphase secondary spermatocytes show the same defect in aster migration and positioning as that seen in the primary spermatocytes at stage M1. The spindles become more normal by metaphase II, and retain a wild-type appearance throughout the remainder of meiosis II. 30% of spermatids contain an abnormal sized Nebenkern and more than one nucleus. The distribution of actin during meiosis is abnormal in spermatocytes.
psidin55D4/psidin[+], tsr1/tsrntf has lethal phenotype
psidin85D1/psidin[+], tsr1/tsrntf has lethal phenotype
psidin[+]/psidine02846, tsr1/tsrntf has lethal phenotype
Expression of psidinScer\UAS.cKa under the control of Scer\GAL4slbo.2.6 in a tsr1 heterozygous background has little or no effect on border cell migration.
The phenotype of tsr1 chicR1 animals indicates that chic is epistatic to tsr.