Translocation break falls in the 2nd intron of if, separating the signal peptide and 1st 38 amino acids from the rest of the coding region.
Embryos exhibit normal epidermis and resultant secreted cuticle, defects lie in internal tissues. Somatic muscle detach and round up. Gut morphogenesis is defective: anterior midgut does not become a slender tube and only two fat gastric caecae are formed. The ventral nerve cord does not fully condense.
Selected as: F1 screen for mutations that fail to complement if3.
Class 0 mutation.