Polytene chromosomes normal.
Fail to complete germ band extension, die with strong ventralized phenotype and no dorsal derived epidermis.
Homozygotes have a ventralized embryonic phenotype: normally ventral epidermal pattern elements are present ventrally and dorsally. Clones of germ line tissue homozygous for dppH88, produced by inducing mitotic recombination in dppH88 Fs(2)M heterozygotes, demonstrate that the absence of maternal dpp product does not affect the zygotic phenotype.
Allele class: Hin