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.
Late stage syncytial embryos have interphase nuclei of variable size and the nuclei are nonuniformly spaced in the embryo with frequent patches at the surface that are devoid of nuclei.