More than 50% of homozygous larvae survive the pupal stage to eclosion. 54% of homozygous ovaries from third instar larvae have an underproliferated germline, 23% have a normal number of germline cells and 23% have an overproliferated germline. The germ cells are grossly abnormal in morphology and size and the ovary is much larger than in wild-type larvae. By the midpupal stage, individual germaria have formed (as in wild type) but 63% of them do not contain germline cells and the remaining mutant ovarioles contain a small number of germline cells. By the adult stage, 86% of homozygous females have germlineless ovaries, 7% have "differentiated ovaries" (containing recognisable egg chambers and/or germline cells in at least one ovariole) and 7% of females have one germlineless and one differentiated ovary.
Small ovary phenotype.
pum07098 and pum06897 have identical P{PZ} insertion sites.