larval brain & nuclear chromosome
Cells of the neural ganglia of mutant larvae show defects in chromosome segregation during mitosis; monopolar anaphases, separation of chromatids to an abnormally short distance in anaphase and bridging or lagging of some chromatids or prolonged asynchronous separation of sister chromatid sets to the poles in anaphase are seen.
Centromere disjunction is affected in mutant flies. This results in arrest of either mitosis or anaphase initiation in imaginal discs, whereas in the neural ganglions, chromosomes integrate into a monopolar spindle at prophase and unipolar cells appear in anaphase.
Shows additional apoptosos in the germarium and early ovarian chambers, the proximal part of the adult testis and larval neural ganglions.
Abnormal mitotic chromosome condensation and appearance of chromosome-like bodies: damaging of chromocenter reorganisation in mitotic cells. Meiotic cell development is also abnormal: defects in male and female meiosis.
Anomalous mitoses in homozygous larvae.
Abnormal mitotic activity as assayed in the larval brain.