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.
Cuticular differentiation is normal in slfunspecified mutant embryos, but arrangement of cuticle around the embryo is abnormal and the cuticle is detached from the body. The head skeleton is tilted backwards. Posterior segments are contracted, and anterior segments are stretched around the egg tip.
