mitosis & nuclear chromosome
Mutants show metaphase arrest with compact condensed chromosomes.
thr1 fzy3 double mutants block temporarily in cycle 15, but then enter mitosis 16 on schedule. Ventral epidermal cells become permanently blocked in metaphase in mitosis 16, similar to fzyunspecified single mutants. thr1 fzy3 pimIL triple mutants have a similar phenotype to fzyunspecified single mutants.
Cells in the ventral epidermis frequently become arrested in metaphase in homozygous embryos. This phenotype is not altered in Df(1)bi-D3/Y ; fzy3/fzy3 embryos. Cells in the dorsal epidermis of these double mutants enter an extra division cycle after mitosis 16 (as is seen for Df(1)bi-D3/Y single mutant embryos), and these cells become arrested during metaphase of this extra division.
The maternal fzy contribution is stable enough to allow completion of mitotic proliferation in the dorsal epidermis, but not in the ventral epidermis. fzy3 embryos carrying P{Dmcdc2A171T} at 18oC exhibit mitotic arrest at stage 11 in the ventral region, as expected. Temperature shift to the restrictive temperature causes a drastic reduction in the number of metaphase arrested cells.
Ventral epidermis absent, CNS degenerate, PNS absent.
fzy3 has phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4prd.RG1/fzr2UAS.cJa
Df(2L)H60-3/fzy3 is rescued by fzytDa
S. Roth.
Phenotypic data included in FBrf0051973.