Rescue fragment reported by author to contain the fully functional bam gene. The upstream fragment boundary (SacI site) is approximate.
Males carrying two copies of bam+t2.9 progress through spermatogenesis normally, and no premature spermatocyte differentiation is observed.
bam+t2.9 is a suppressor | partially of male germline cyst phenotype of mei-P26mfs1
bam+t2.9 is a suppressor of nucleolus phenotype of mei-P26mfs1
Expression of bam+t2.9 completely rescues the overproliferation defects seen in the testes of mei-P26mfs1 males and 72% of the cysts in the spermatocyte region have 16 spermatocytes per cyst. The enlarged nucleolus phenotype seen in mei-P26mfs1 testes is also suppressed. The spermatocyte and spermatid differentiation defects are not rescued: 27% of cysts from the spermatocyte region have differentiation defects in the rescued males.