Golgi apparatus and nearby vesicles of ovarian follicles showed dramatically reduced osmium zinc iodide staining.
Strong phenotype. Oocytes produced by homozygous females contain fewer proteinaceous yolk spheres than oocytes produced by wild-type females. These abnormal yolk spheres do contain some yolk. The adult hemolymph of homozygous females contains a much higher level of vitellogenin than normal.
Eggs that are laid lack proteinaceous yolk and collapse due to fragile chorion.
female-sterile