Elimination of the neuroparsin neuroendocrine cells in Drosophila virilis using the UAS-Gal4 system shows that neuroparsin is not important for reproduction in this species.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Сен. 1, 2024

Neuroparsin is a common insect neurohormone produced in large neuroendocrine cells the brain and important mosquito reproduction. Although it present many flies including Drosophila species, was lost from D. melanogaster few closely related species. Three different lines of transgenic virilis were produced: One that expresses yeast transcription factor gal4 under control neuroparsin promoter (NP-gal4), while others codes for proteins promoter, either enhanced green fluorescent protein (UAS-eGFP) or ortholog reaper, an apoptosis inducing (UAS-rpr). Crosses between UAS-eGFP NP-gal4 revealed expression correct. UAS-rpr completely eliminated cells, but without effect on

Язык: Английский

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PLoS Biology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 22(12), С. e3002985 - e3002985

Опубликована: Дек. 18, 2024

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Язык: Английский