Homozygous flies and mosaic flies in which the retinal tissue is homozygous for ninaA2 but the rest of the animal is ninaA+ lack the prolonged depolarising afterpotential (PDA) in the electroretinogram response.
Mutants exhibit excessive endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in photoreceptor cells that is dependent on expression of rhodopsin gene. The ninaE+/ninaED1 or the ninaE+/ninaED2 heterozygous genotypes do not prevent the accumulation of ER present in ninaA2 flies.