Expression of tllhs.PS in embryos results in a weak dorsal open phenotype. The pattern of ventral denticles appears grossly normal.
Embryos ectopically expressing tllhs.PS lack the Bolwig's organ, while the optic lobe is present. The optic lobes are located more dorsally than normal and are fused in the dorsal midline.
Embryos show increasing repression of segmentation with increasing duration of early heat shock (at 1.5 to 2.5 hours). This repression spreads from a central position at approximately 40% egg length. Embryos heat shocked later (at 2.5 to 3 hours) generally form cuticles with a continuous field of nonpolar denticles. Filzkorper are formed and segmentation is repressed in heat shocked embryos carrying tllhs.PS and derived from tor1, trk1 females.
Mutations in genes known to act in the terminal signalling pathway in the embryo have been tested for their ability to restore central, segmental development in tllhs.PS embryos, to determine which genes act downstream or independently of tll.