lethal | maternal effect | recessive
germ plasm
pole granule
primordial germ cell
Maternal effect phenotype when in trans with a deficiency for osk.
Absence of posterior pole plasm, polar granules and pole cells.
Strong allele of osk. The abdominal phenotype of osk can be rescued by cytoplasmic transplantation of wild type posterior pole plasm into the abdominal regions of mutant embryos.
Strong allele of osk. The abdominal phenotype of osk can be rescued by cytoplasmic transplantation of wild type posterior pole plasm into the abdominal regions of mutant embryos.