Expression of Vps15^HMS00908 under the control of Scer\GAL4^{Myo31DF-NP0001} results in defective midgut degradation after pupariation, with significantly increased size of the gastric caeca 4 hrs after puparium formation, and significantly decreased autophagy levels 2 hrs after puparium formation, as compared to controls. Expression of Vps15^HMS00908 under the control of Scer\GAL4^cg.PU results in a decrease in starvation-induced autophagy in the larval fat body, as compared to controls.

(Xu et al., 2015)

Females heterozygous for ird1^HMS00908 and MTD-Gal4 (consists of Scer\GAL4^{otu.T:Hsim\VP16}, Scer\GAL4^nos.PG and Scer\GAL4^{nos.UTR.T:Hsim\VP16}) crossed to ird1^HMS00908 males results in: 69% hatching; non-maternal effect.

(Sopko et al., 2014)