nucleus | embryonic stage | maternal effect, with gnu305
gnu305 mutant females lay embryos that have few giant nuclei (due to inability to undergo mitosis) while embryos from gnu305 mothers carrying the gnu9A.T:Avic\GFP construct show only partial rescue of the phenotype: the embryos undergo mitosis but most show defects in early cycles or in blastoderm stage.
The progression through meiosis upon egg activation is delayed (condensed phase of metaphase I persists longer than in wild-type and the metaphase I/anaphase I transition is delayed) in gnu305;gnu9A.T:Avic\GFP oocytes, the morphology of chromosomes at metaphase I is frequently aberrant and defects in meiotic chromosome segregation are also observed.