Embryos derived from females carrying homozygous germ line clones have a partially penetrant abdominal segmentation defect (mostly lack of A6). Zygotically mutant embryos have a lawn of denticles phenotype. Homozygotes do not survive to adulthood.
Embryos derived from females carrying homozygous germ line clones have a partially penetrant segmentation defect. This phenotype is not due to a maternal effect.