Nurse cells lack actin halo, transport of cytoplasm is blocked.

Phenotype is similar to germline phenotype of weak arm mutants, with occasional minor oocyte displacement, occasional nurse cell fusion and breakdown in nurse cell/oocyte boundary.

Fully penetrant egg chamber phenotype: nurse cells fail to deliver all their cytoplasm to the oocyte resulting in small oocytes surrounded by an egg shell. Strong allele of chic.

Eggs are tiny due to a failure to transport nurse cell content into the oocyte.

Nurse cell contents are not transported into the egg and homozygous females lay tiny eggs, which remain unfertilized.