The number of commissural fibers crossing the ventral midline of stage 16 embryos is reduced in sizU112 homozygotes and sizU112/sizC1-28 animals. This effect is seen most strongly in abdominal segments A1-A4. The longitudinal connectives are also thinner. In neuromeres with reduced commissures the midline glial cells migrate toward the connectives. The commissural phenotypes of these embryos are stronger than those of sizC1-28 homozygotes. In stage 16 sizU112/sizC1-28 embryos many axons that usually cross the ventral midline fail to do so and show fasciculation defects.
Mutants show a variable reduction in the number of commissural fibers. Midline glial cell is initially normal but reduced later due to loss of commissural axons.
3-5 neuromeres lack one or both commissures in homozygous embryos.
IqsecU112 has larval ventral nerve cord commissure | embryonic stage phenotype, enhanceable by Df(1)RK2
IqsecU112 has larval ventral nerve cord commissure | embryonic stage phenotype, enhanceable by fra23H9
IqsecU112 has larval ventral nerve cord commissure phenotype, enhanceable by fraC1-62
IqsecU112/IqsecC1-28 has embryonic myoblast phenotype, suppressible | partially by CadNM19
IqsecU112 has larval ventral nerve cord commissure | embryonic stage phenotype, suppressible by robo[+]/robo1O1-103
IqsecU112 has larval ventral nerve cord commissure | embryonic stage phenotype, suppressible by sli550/sli[+]
IqsecU112 has larval ventral nerve cord commissure | embryonic stage phenotype, suppressible by Scer\GAL4sim.PS/NetBUAS.cHa
IqsecU112 is an enhancer of larval ventral nerve cord commissure phenotype of fraC1-62
Reduction of ventral nerve cord commissures in stage 16 sizU112 homozygous embryos is strongly enhanced by Df(1)RK2, and by fra23H9. NetBScer\UAS.cHa; Scer\GAL4sim.PS largely suppresses the reduction of ventral midline commissures in sizU112 embryos. Reduction of ventral commissures in these embryos is also dominantly suppressed by sli550 and roboO1-103.
IqsecU112 is rescued by IqsecP2.UAS/Scer\GAL4sli.PS
IqsecU112 is rescued by IqsecP2.UAS/Scer\GAL4sim.PS
IqsecU112 is rescued by IqsecP1.UAS/Scer\GAL4sli.PS
IqsecU112 is rescued by IqsecP1.UAS/Scer\GAL4sim.PS
Reduction of ventral nerve cord commissures in sizU112 homozygotes is rescued by sizP1.Scer\UAS or sizP2.Scer\UAS with Scer\GAL4sim.PS or Scer\GAL4sli.PS.