Polytene chromosomes normal.
pydJ14/pydJ14, pydJ14/Df(3R)pydC2 and pydJ14/pydC5 flies have extra macrochaetae on the head and notum compared to wild-type. Heterozygotes have an average of 0.29 +/- 0.07 extra macrochaetae per fly. Late third instar larval discs contain extra sensory organ precursors. Homozygotes have slightly rough eyes, due to the presence of duplicated and mispositioned bristles and occasional enlarged and irregularly shaped ommatidia. Ommatidia occasionally contain too few or extra cone cells and/or extra primary pigment cells. A small fraction of hemizygous embryos fail to hatch. These embryos show some defects in head involution and head skeleton formation, and denticle belts are sparse and disorganised.
pydJ14 has sense organ phenotype, enhanceable by emc20
pydJ14 has cephalopharyngeal skeleton phenotype, enhanceable by emc20
pydJ14 has ventral denticle belt phenotype, enhanceable by emc20
pydJ14 has embryonic/first instar larval cuticle | dorsal phenotype, enhanceable by emc20
pydJ14 has macrochaeta phenotype, enhanceable by Delta6B
pydJ14 is a suppressor of macrochaeta phenotype of NAx-E2
The pydJ14 extra bristle and rough eye phenotypes are strongly enhanced by Dl6B at 29oC. The bristle loss phenotype of NAx-E2/+ flies is partially suppressed by pydJ14. One copy of emc20 strongly enhances the pydJ14 phenotype, resulting in extra sensory organs in positions characteristic of pyd mutants rather than emc mutants. emc20 pydJ14 double homozygotes die as embryos or early larvae. The embryos produced usually have severe defects in head involution and lack the cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton. Some embryos also have holes in the dorsal cuticle of the head. The denticle belts are sparse and disorganised.
Order of alleles based on increasing severity of phenotype when hemizygous: pyd1 < pydJ17 < pydJ4 = pydJ2 < pydG18 = pydG7 < pydJ14 = pydC5.