FlyBase Curator comment: Given the progenitor genotype, this excision event must also partially delete the phl gene.
Imprecise excision of a progenitor insertion has resulted in a deletion.
Central nervous system neuroblasts of fed Df(1)Ilp6/Df(1)Ilp668 second instar larvae show a moderate reduction in EdU incorporation compared to controls.
Df(1)Ilp668 mutants are 100% viable; show a slight delay in egg-to-adult development time (males only); show a significant reduction in adult body weight; and males show normal paraquat resistance and starvation resistance.
Mutant adults show a reduction in mass compared to controls.
Mutant wandering stage larvae have normal levels of circulating carbohydrates and of triacylglycerides.
The growth of Df(1)Ilp668 adults is compromised relative to that of control animals upon starvation (the mutant adults show a greater reduction of mass under starvation conditions compared to standard feeding conditions than do control adults).