Insertion within the transcription unit, 51bp downstream of the 5' end and 7 nucleotides downstream of the putative translation initiation site.
Homozygous females produce embryos that have defects in abdominal patterning and lack pole cells. Animals that hatch from these embryos are fully agametic.
The severity of the abdominal defects of embryos derived from homozygous females is variable, ranging in from the presence of only one or two abdominal segments to a fully normal abdomen.
The csulP mutation produces a "grandchildless knirps-like" phenotype characterised by a failure in pole cell formation and variable deletions in the abdominal segments of the embryo.
csulP has primordial germ cell phenotype, non-suppressible by oskbcd.UTR
csulP is a suppressor of embryo | anterior phenotype of oskbcd.UTR
csulP suppresses the bicaudal phenotype of oskbcd.UTR embryos. The embryos produced have cuticle with a normal polarity, but the head is malformed. Pole cells are not formed in these double mutant embryos.
Reversion of the P-element insertion demonstrates it to be responsible for female sterility.
Excision of the insertion can revert the mutant phenotype.