Expression in procephalic neuroblasts stage 9-11: tritocerebrum - d3, d5, v4, v5; deuterocerebrum - d5, d9, d13, v8; protocerebrum - ad3-10, av1, cv4, pd5, pd8
Expression of en-lacZ reporter delimits the segmental boundaries in the embryonic procephalic region of the ectoderm and labels a subset of neuroblasts during stages 9-11.
In third instar larval abdominal segments, expressed in the posterior compartment, in the posterior dorsal histoblast nest, and in a posterior subset of the cells in the ventral histoblast nests. In adult abdominal segments, expressed in the posterior compartment.
EcollacZen-Xho25 transcript was detected in the posterior compartments of imaginal discs, and in ocellus primordia.
In pupal wing, pattern slightly different that detected by antibodies against en protein. High level of expression in posterior compartment of the wing; in addition, a narrow region of faintly labelled cells immediately anterior to the posterior compartment, within the anterior compartment and widest at the distal tip of the wing.
Expression used as a marker for the posterior compartments of discs. The exact pattern was reported elsewhere. (FBrf0051823).
Ecol\lacZen-Xho25 has been used to show that the mixed clones of cells (marked with a lineage tracer at the blastoderm stage) seen at the posterior edge of the embryonic en stripes are caused by some of the cells losing en expression.