Rab23T69A is semi-lethal, but homozygous mutant animals occasionally survive till adulthood and display a strong multiple wing hair phenotype as well as hair orientation defects. Whereas hair orientation is only mildly affected in the submarginal and 1st posterior cells, the deflection from wild-type orientation is more obvious the rest of the wing.
Hemizygous Rab23T69A/Df(3R)BSC47 mutants display wing hair phenotypes including multiple hairs and hair orientation defects.
Clones of Rab23T69A mutant cells in the pupal wing display delayed pre-hair initiation cell autonomously.
Some of the Rab23T69A mutant pupal wing cells display impaired hexagonal packing at around 30-32 h after puparium formation (APF). In wild-type wings, the ratio of non-hexagonally shaped cells relative to hexagonally shaped cells is around 11%, whereas in Rab23T69A homozygous mutant wings this ratio increases to 27%. The formation of multiple wing hairs does not appear to correlate with irregular cell shape in the pupal wing.
Rab2351/Rab23T69A mutants exhibit a multiple wing hair phenotype.
Rab23T69A is rescued by Scer\GAL4Act5C.PU/Rab23UASp.YFP
Rab23T69A is rescued by Rab23+t12.3
A single copy of Rab23+t12.3 rescues the wing hair phenotypes of both Rab23T69A and Rab2351.
Expression of Scer\GAL4Act5C.PU-driven Rab23Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-YFP rescues the wing hair phenotypes of Rab23T69A.