Delamination and migration of border follicle cells are both accelerated in Fas2rd1 homozygotes.
About 20% of mutant adult males show genitalia rotation defects.
Mutants show significantly lower memory than control flies at multiple times after olfactory classical conditioning.
Mushroom bodies from mutant animals do not have any detectable phenotype. In odour avoidance tests, mutant flies avoidance the aversive odours of octanol and benzaldehyde to the same degree as wild-type controls. Odour response after preshock is also wild-type. Mutant flies' ability to perceive and avoid electrified grids also appears to be normal. In odour learning tests, mutant flies exhibit relatively poor performance compared to wild-type flies when tested 3 minutes after odour conditioning. When trained with a short program schedule, mutants perform poorly relative to wild-type, but after normalisation, memory is seen to decay at an identical rate. Memory retrieval also appear to be wild-type. The defect appears to be in memory formation. When tested on an inebriometer, mutants show an increased ethanol sensitivity.
Fas2rd1 is rescued by Fas2UAS.cLa/Scer\GAL4BA3
Fas2rd1 is partially rescued by Fas2UAS.cLa/Scer\GAL4slbo.2.6
The migration phenotypes of border follicle cells in Fas2rd1 homozygotes are rescued by Fas2Scer\UAS.cLa; Scer\GAL4BA3. When Scer\GAL4slbo.2.6 is used instead, the migration rate of the border follicle cells is rescued, but delamination is still delayed, and the border follicle cells lose their polarity.