Imprecise excision of the progenitor insertion, P{GawB}pydNP4400, results in a deletion encompassing a large region of pyd.
Embryos maternally and zygotically mutant for pydex180 exhibit 66% embryonic lethality.
Substantial embryonic lethality (43-58%) is found in flies from pydex180 mothers crossed with pydB12 fathers.
The ventral epidermis is intact in pydex180 maternal/zygotic mutant embryos and the CNS is not obviously hypertrophied. While approximately 17% of pydex180 maternal/zygotic mutant embryos appear wild-type, most mutant embryos (32%) exhibit defects in head involution that result in defective head skeletons, whereas the most severe (51%) display complete failure of head involution, leading to a hole in the cuticle. In addition, some show minor defects in dorsal closure.
The ventral epidermis is intact in pydB12/pydex180 maternal/zygotic mutant embryos and the CNS is not obviously hypertrophied. While approximately 12% of pydB12/pydex180 maternal/zygotic mutant embryos appear wild-type, most mutant embryos (54%) exhibit defects in head involution that result in defective head skeletons, whereas the most severe (34%) display complete failure of head involution, leading to a hole in the cuticle. In addition, some show minor defects in dorsal closure.
Over 90% of pydex180/Df(3R)p-XT103 flies display more than four dorsocentral macrochaetae.
Wings from pydex180/Df(3R)p-XT103 flies are broader compared to control wings. A 10% increase in the number of cells found between the L3 and L4 veins is observed.
pydex180/pyd[+] is an enhancer of abnormal cell shape phenotype of ena23
pydex180 has embryo | dorsal closure stage phenotype, enhanceable by ena23/ena[+]
pydex180 has embryonic leading edge cell phenotype, enhanceable by ena23/ena[+]
pydex180 has ventral head epidermis phenotype, enhanceable by ena23/ena[+]
pydex180 has embryonic head phenotype, enhanceable by ena23/ena[+]
pydex180/pyd[+] is an enhancer of embryo | dorsal closure stage phenotype of ena23
pydex180/pyd[+] is an enhancer of embryonic leading edge cell phenotype of ena23
pydex180/pyd[+] is an enhancer of ventral head epidermis phenotype of ena23
pydex180/pyd[+] is an enhancer of embryonic head phenotype of ena23
Reducing ena levels, through an ena23 heterozygous background, substantially enhances the severity of the pydex180 zygotic/maternal phenotype; more than one-third of the mutants exhibit large holes in the cuticle, suggesting disruption of epithelial integrity.
Reducing pyd levels, through a pydex180 heterozygous background, strongly enhances the morphogenesis defects found in zygotic ena23 mutants, substantially increasing the frequency of failure of head involution.