ana3SH0558 and ana3SH0558/Df(2R)Exel6061 flies are viable but severely uncoordinated and die shortly after eclosion as they become stuck in the food.
Basal bodies of sensory cilia in the pupal third antennal segment are undetectable in ana3SH0558 and ana3SH0558/Df(2R)Exel6061 animals. This leads to a lack of cilia in sensory neurons of these animals.
ana3SH0558 and ana3SH0558/Df(2R)Exel6061 larval brain cells show a large variation in centriole and centrosome number, with a third of cells having too few centrioles and centrosomes, and 44% of cells having too many. Some mutant centrioles recruit very small amounts of pericentriolar material, and these centrioles are smaller than normal.
Centriole numbers are reduced in ana3SH0558 and ana3SH0558/Df(2R)Exel6061 spermatocytes. In contrast to wild type, virtually none of the remaining centrioles are paired in the mutants. The prematurely separated centrioles remain competent to nucleate astral microtubules during meiosis, and this leads to multipolar spindles.
Centrioles and axonemes are structurally abnormal in ana3SH0558 and ana3SH0558/Df(2R)Exel6061 testes.
ana3SH0558 is rescued by ana3Ubi.GFP
Precision excision of the P{lacW} reverts the ana3SH0558 phenotypes.