Homozygous and transheterozygous eggs with spn-A³ exhibit either a strong or weak ventralised phenotype: eggs are longer than wild type and are completely symmetric along the DV axis or the eggs display fused dorsal appendages. Egg chambers of females exhibit a partially penetrant disruption in the positioning of the oocyte which can be located anywhere in the egg chamber. Almost all oocytes lack a karyosome and the oocyte chromosomes are arranged instead in thread-like figures with irregular shape. Germline clones in egg chambers are composed of wild type follicle cells, mutant nurse cells, misplaced oocyte, oocytes that give rise to ventralised eggs and oocytes that lack a karyosome.