Mutants are noticeably smaller than wild-type but not obviously sick or deformed. The majority of homozygous mutants that have been entrained to diurnal lighting (LD, 12hr light:12hr dark) and subsequently monitored under constant darkness (DD) are arrhythmic - only a small number are strongly rhythmic. In contrast to wild-type however, under LD entrainment however mutants exhibit most activity at night. In the occasional rhythmic mutant flies the phase of activity during DD is similar to wild-type but in anti-phase compared to the same flies during LD.
Homozygotes show resistance to halothane in an inebriometer assay (an assay of geotactic and postural behaviour) compared to wild-type flies.
Abdomen long and cylindrical in both sexes. Viability low; female fertility low. Ovaries in juvenile condition (Brehme). RK2.
Alleles of na form a phenotypic series, going from strongest to weakest: nahar38 > nahar85 > naP890 > na1 > naPex1 > naPex2.