DrlacZ-Δ89 heterozygous stage 15 embryos do not exhibit any obvious mutant phenotype in the central nervous system.
Homozygous DrlacZ-Δ89 stage 15 mutants display a lack of tritocerebral neuronal tissue.
An increase in apoptosis compared to controls is seen in the basal procephalic longitudinal glia cluster and the deuto-/tritocerebral fibre tract founder cluster in stage 12 DrlacZ-Δ89 embryos.
DrlacZ-Δ89 mutants have supernumerary cardioblasts and pericardial cells, which lead to an enlarged heart.
The longitudinal glioblast (LGB) forms normally and undergoes a normal first cell division in homozygous embryos, although further cell division and migration of the progeny is abnormal.