Homozygous females retain mature eggs.
females produce few if any eggs. temperature-sensitive. Adults normal but females retain eggs; partially fertile at 16oC. Clones of homozygous germinal cells in heterozygous female produce oviposited eggs (Wieschaus, Audit and Masson, 1981).
Germ line clonal analysis shows that fs(1)A462 function is required in the soma.