Break at 71E3-5 maps to a PstI-SalI fragment within the 9.6kb EcoRI fragment that includes the comm transcription unit.
Both pairs of commissures are missing in all thoracic and abdominal segments. Many commissural growth cones initially extend toward the midline; however they soon retract and join longitudinal pathways without crossing the midline.
Commissural axon pathways in the embryonic ventral nerve cord absent.