Eggs with expression of pimdk.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP driven in the female germline by Scer\GAL4mat.αTub67C.T:Hsim\VP16 fail to hatch but the majority appear to complete meiosis (89% of eggs contain a polar body and 88% of polar bodies contain three X-chromosomes); in wild type eggs 96% complete meiosis and contain a single or, rarely, two polar bodies: 90% of polar bodies contain three X-chromosomes. Zygotic development is arrested early and most embryos contain only 1-2 zygotic nuclei that range in appearance from normal to aberrant. Scer\GAL4mat.αTub67C.T:Hsim\VP16>pimdk.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP embryos contain several free centrosomes and a single aberrant mitotic spindle with re-replicated DNA. Wild type embryos have up to 6 X-arm FISH signals in their polar bodies (depending on age), whereas mutants almost always have 3 (failure of polar body chromosome arm segregation and chromosome segregation in syncytial mitosis).
Unlike pimdsRNA.5'.Scer\UAS.P\T or pimdk.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP expression alone (permit some embryonic development), co-expression driven by Scer\GAL4mat.αTub67C.T:Hsim\VP16 leads to arrested development in the first (or rarely the second) mitotic division in embryos; in 50% of embryos, the lone mitotic spindle has a single X-cent FISH signal and in 50% there is no associated X-cent signal - indicating the embryo forms solely from the male pronucleus; the majority of embryos with co-expression contain polar bodies (72%) and contain 4 X-chromosomes, and polar body arms fail to lose arm cohesion. Co-expression of pimdsRNA.5'.Scer\UAS.P\T and pimScer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP driven by Scer\GAL4mat.αTub67C.T:Hsim\VP16 leads to similar phenotypes as seen with expression pimdsRNA.5'.Scer\UAS.P\T or pimdk.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP alone. pimdsRNA.5'.Scer\UAS.P\T and pimdk.Scer\UAS.P\T.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP co-expression driven by Scer\GAL4mat.αTub67C.T:Hsim\VP16 leads to delays in cohesion release and consequent chromosome movements in meiosis and in the majority (79%) of eggs, centromeric cohesion persists into post-meiotic interphase; centromeric cohesion persists in 34% and arm cohesion persists in 22% of polar bodies.