Imprecise excision of P{SUPor-P}NcKG02994 has deleted about 2.8 kb of genomic sequence, including the most of the sequence encoding Nc and CG6685.
neuroblast & larval abdominal segment 3 | late third instar larval stage
neuroblast & larval abdominal segment 4 | late third instar larval stage
neuroblast & larval abdominal segment 5 | late third instar larval stage
neuroblast & larval abdominal segment 6 | late third instar larval stage
neuroblast & larval abdominal segment 7 | late third instar larval stage
Nc30 homozygous embryos hatch at the normal time but the larvae develop more slowly than wild-type. As a result, average body length at 72 hours after egg laying is 23% less than the average for Nc30/+ controls. These larvae fail to pupariate, but continue to grow and reach a final body mass 32% greater, on average, than control larvae just prior to pupariation. The resulting giant larvae die at 10-12 days after wild-type larvae pupariate. Unlike wild-type larvae, these larvae are not induced to pupariate early by feeding with ecdysone at the mid-third instar.
Nc30 homozygous larvae fail to exhibit cell death in the larval midgut, as wild-type larvae do, at end of the third larval instar (assayed by Tunel staining) or in response to feeding with ecdysone at mid-third instar (assayed by acridine orange staining).
In Nc30 homozygous larvae, most of the abdominal neuroblasts in segments A3-A7 of the CNS that normally die during the late third instar persist.
X-ray induced apoptosis in wing discs is almost eliminated in Nc30 homozygous third instar larvae.
Dronc30/Nc[+] is a suppressor of eye phenotype of grimGMR.PH
Nc30/+ partially suppresses the small, rough eye phenotype caused by rprGMR.PH or grimGMR.PH but not that caused by WGMR.PG.
Dronc30 is partially rescued by DroncUAS.EGFP/Scer\GAL4hs.PB
Dronc30 is not rescued by DroncC318S.UAS/Scer\GAL4hs.PB
Pupariation of Nc30 homozygous larvae is rescued in 85% of cases by NcScer\UAS.T:Avic\GFP-EGFP; Scer\GAL4hs.PB. It also rescues normal patterns of cell death in abdominal CNS neuroblasts during the late third instar and X-ray induced cell death in wing discs.