FlyBase curator comment: this entry is used to capture phenotypic information when the particular allele (or allele combination) used by the author could not be determined but the context of the experiment suggests that the phenotype being described is some kind of loss of function.
Homozygous Gad1 mutant embryos removed manually from the egg are, like the few larvae that hatch, severely unco-odinated and contract their entire body in response to touch rather than initiating typical peristaltic "crawling" movements. Gross morphology of mutants is completely normal, with no defects visible. Muscle shape, patterning, and innervation are normal the gut and segmental patterning of the epidermis and denticle belts appear normal, and the central nervous system appears normally formed. At 22-24 hours after egg laying, trachea are inflated.
Eighteen alleles have been isolated.