<p></p><p><b>Supplementary Figure S1 </b>shows
the reversion analysis by the excision of <i>P</i>-elements
from mutant alleles of <i>DCP2</i>.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Figure S2 </b>shows
the morphological defects exhibited by escapees of adult fly trans-heterozygous
for <i>P{GT1}DCP2<sup>BG01766</sup>/l(3)tb</i>.
</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Figure S3</b>
shows the defects in compound eyes of the escapees having heterozygous genetic
background of the mutant <i>l(3)tb </i>with
lethal <i>P-</i>insertion allele <i>DCP2<sup>BG01766</sup></i>.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Figure S4</b>
shows the tumorous phenotype observed in larval brain and wing imaginal discs
in trans-heterozygotes <i>l(3)tb
/PBac{RB}DCP2<sup>e00034</sup></i> and <i>l(3)tb<sup>
</sup>/P{GT1}DCP2<sup>BG01766</sup></i> similar to homozygous <i>l(3)tb</i> mutants.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Figure S5</b>
shows the results of screening of <i>DCP2</i>
in the <i>l(3)tb </i>mutants, using
overlapping primers. </p>
<p><b>Supplementary Figure S6 </b>shows
the<b> </b>schematic representation of the
convergent bidirectional primer walking adopted for sequencing and alignment of
the large amplicon obtained at the candidate region in <i>DCP2<sup>l(3)tb</sup></i>
homozygotes and the reads obtained on sequencing with each of the four primers.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Figure S7 </b>shows<b> </b>that the effects of ubiquitous knockdown
of <i>Diablo </i>does not lead to any developmental anomaly and does not
affect survival of the driven progeny. </p>
<p><b>Supplementary Table S1 </b>depicts
the complementation status of <i>l(3)tb</i>
with cytologically mapped deletion lines. </p>
<p><b>Supplementary Table S2 </b>shows the complementation analysis of <i>l(3)tb
</i>with lethal transposon insertion lines.<b></b></p>
<p><b>Supplementary Table S3 </b>lists
the primers used for characterizing deletion in <i>Df(3L)RM95</i>.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Table S4 </b>shows
the overlapping set of primers for <i>DCP2</i>
and thermal cycler conditions of annealing temperature and extension time for
each primer pair to amplify the genomic region of <i>DCP2</i> gene in the homozygous <i>l(3)tb</i>
mutant.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Table S5 </b>lists
the overlapping set of primers to amplify the genomic region in <i>DCP2</i> gene for the region covered by the
DCP2_P19 set of primers in the homozygous <i>l(3)tb</i>
mutant.</p>
<p><b>Supplementary Table S6 </b>lists
the overlapping set of primers and thermal cycling conditions used to amplify
the complete 5’UTR of genomic region in <i>DCP2</i>
gene in the homozygous <i>l(3)tb</i> mutant.
</p><br><p></p>