Nucleotide substitution: C?T.
Amino acid replacement: Q561term.
Commissures fail to form and the longitudinal tracts collapse into a fused tract at the midline.
The presence of Ecol\lacZsim.7.8 construct fails to rescue lethality or the CNS phenotype. The construct shows that the midline cells are disorganised compared to wild type at stage 11 and at stage 13 are clustered near the ventral surface of the embryo leading to the collapse of the two lateral CNS hemiganglia and fusion of the longitudinal connectives.
CNS defect: specific alterations in the pattern of precursors that give rise to the 2 MP1 progeny, ventral unpaired median neurons and the specialized ectodermal cells, the midline ectodermal cells (MEC).