Imaginal discs of homozygous larvae are missing or degenerate. Defects in the cell cycle: few or no dividing cells, affects chromosome condensation, arrest of the cell cycle at metaphase and cell division failures that result in highly polyploid cells.
Discs missing or degenerate; mitotic index of larval ganglion cells three times that of controls; mitotic chromosomes more highly condensed than normal; 30% of metaphases polyploid; chromosome fragmentation common; no anaphase figures seen (Gatti and Baker, 1989). Homozygous cells in ovary lethal (Perrimon, Engstrom and Mahowald, 1984). late pupal lethal mitotic phenotype: hypercontracted chromosomes, no anaphase, polyploid cells
Maternal germline clonal analysis demonstrates cell lethality in homozygous clones.