Homozygous embryos have ectopic U4 neurons in both thoracic and abdominal hemisegments.
Posterior commissure has only half the diameter of wild type embryos: one fasciclin III- positive fascicle is missing.
Embryos expressing pdm2Scer\UAS.T:Ivir\HA1 under the control of Scer\GAL4pros.PMG in a cas39/cas39 background have ectopic U4 neurons.
en expression in the CNS is abnormal.