Point mutation substituting G for A, destroying the 3' splice site.
G4388458A
G?A
Position of mutation on reference sequence inferred by FlyBase curator based on author statement. Mutation is in splice acceptor site.
Injected dl- perivitelline fluid had no effect on embryos.
Dorsalized embryos: all cuticle cells along the dorsoventral axis behave like dorsal cells of the wild type embryo. zen expression pattern refines at stage 5, dpp pattern does not refine at all, twi and sna are expressed during late stages of embryogenesis.
Embryos derived from homozygous females are dorsalised.
Embryos can be rescued with wild-type cytoplasm and RNA; however, none hatch.
Double mutant combinations with eaD1 are strongly dorsalizing.
Molecular modification is predicted to eliminate splicing.