Depending on the insertion, Scer\GAL4elav-C155-driven expression of endoAA66W.Scer\UAS causes embryonic or pupal lethality, or flies die a few days after eclosion exhibiting uninflated wings and a small-eye phenotype. Additional eye phenotypes in flies surviving to adulthood include: unusually narrow and pointed aspect of the lower eye; roughening of the eye caused by ommatidia that are uneven in size and missing/supernumerary bristles; abnormal pitting in the ommatidia.
Scer\GAL4elav-C155/EndoAA66W.UAS partially rescues EndoAΔ4
Expression of endoAA66W.Scer\UAS using Scer\GAL4elav-C155 doesn't completely rescue endoAΔ4 larval lethality, though animals can survive to pupal or pharate stages, depending on the insertion. This does rescue the severe tetanus-induced depression in excitatory junctional potentials (EJPs), the slow post-tetanic recovery of EJP amplitude, and the low frequency of spontaneous miniature EJPs seen in endoAΔ4 mutants.