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.
Mutant embryos lack Malpighian tubule tip cells, but the tubules contain a completely wild-type number of cells.
In an unspecified Deficiency that uncovers numb, RP2 neurons are occasionally transformed into a sib fate.
Muscle DA1 is present as a myosin-expressing muscle fiber in only 8% of hemisegments, DA2 is present in 5.5%, DO1 is present in 21% and DO2 is present in 15% of hemisegments in mutant embryos. Subdivision of the somatic, visceral and cardiac muscle progenitors appears to be normal.