Homozygous females produce egg chambers with less than 15 nurse cells and these egg chambers usually degenerate before completing oogenesis. Most egg chambers lack an oocyte. Ring canals in cysts and egg chambers are reduced in number and have deformed outer rings. Phalloidin staining revealed that the abnormal ring canals were deficient in actin. Homozygotes show reduced viability and rough eyes.
Dysgenesis induced revertants have normal viability, are fertile and have no egg chamber defects.