Nucleotide substitution: C?T.
Amino acid replacement: R70term.
C20065391T
C?T
R70term | vls-PA
R70term
Mutants have agametic gonads.
Eggs derived from homozygous females form a syncytial blastoderm but 80-90% of the embryos fail to cellularise. Those that do cellularise show variable cellularisation defects. The embryos show a "grandchildless-knirps" phenotype; they lack polar granules and pole cells and show typical maternal kni-like abdominal segment deletions.
vls3 is a suppressor of primordial germ cell | ectopic phenotype of oskbcd.UTR