Spectrosomes and fusomes are present and appropriately branched in the majority of germaria in the ovaries of newly eclosed mutant females. However, in 4-day old mutant females, fusomes are often not detected and when they are present, they appear unbranched. In older females, both spectrosomes and fusomes are absent. Mispositioned oocytes are seen in approximately 20% of mutant ovarioles, such that the oocyte of the oldest germline cyst is nor found at the posterior end of the cyst.

The gonads of mutant third instar female larvae appear morphologically normal. However, pupal gonads lack complete follicle individualisation; although adjacent germline cysts are mostly separated from each other by clusters or layers of somatic cells, there is no evidence of interfollicular stalks.