Flies expressing Scer\GAL4tim.Scer\UAS driven cryScer\UAS.cEa show significantly longer free-running periods than wild-type flies under blue light.
Responsiveness of flies expressing Scer\GAL4tim.Scer\UAS driven cryScer\UAS.cEa to magnetic fields is altered compared to wild-type flies. This response is blue light dependent. After experimental exposure to a 300 microT magnetic field, most of the Scer\GAL4tim.Scer\UAS driven cryScer\UAS.cEa expressing flies become arrhythmic and the remaining ones show large changes in their circadian free-running periods.
Flies expressing cryScer\UAS.cEa, under the control of Scer\GAL4P0.5.Pdf, exhibit low levels of arrhythmicity (approximately 16.7% versus 13%).
When cryScer\UAS.cEa is driven in the lateral neurons by Scer\GAL4tim.PE, the mutant flies become hypersensitive to low-intensity illumination, especially at Zeitgeber time (ZT) 15, though a modest but reproducible effect is seen at ZT21.
When expression is driven by Scer\GAL4tim.PE, hypersensitive circadian responses to light are produced. The flies are much more sensitive to light at low intensities. The effect is particularly strong at ZT15, suggesting that cry levels are normally limiting at low light intensities. The magnitude of the effect is more variable at ZT21, in the advance zone.
Scer\GAL4P0.5.Pdf, cryUAS.cEa has abnormal locomotor rhythm phenotype, non-enhanceable by Scer\GAL4P0.5.Pdf/perUAS.cYa
Scer\GAL4P0.5.Pdf/cryUAS.cEa is a non-enhancer of abnormal locomotor rhythm phenotype of Scer\GAL4P0.5.Pdf, perUAS.cYa
Flies expressing perScer\UAS.cYa and cryScer\UAS.cEa, under the control of Scer\GAL4P0.5.Pdf, exhibit low levels of arrhythmicity (approximately 15.7% versus 13%).
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4tim.PE rescues cryb
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4Mai179 rescues cryb
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4tim.PE rescues cryb
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4tim.PE rescues cryb
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4P2.4.Pdf partially rescues cryb
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4P2.4.Pdf fails to rescue cryb
cryUAS.cEa/Scer\GAL4ninaE.PD fails to rescue cryb
In contrast to wild-type animals, cryb mutants expressing Scer\GAL4P2.4.Pdf driven cryScer\UAS.cEa do display circadian locomotor activity rhythms under constant light conditions.
Similarly to wild-type flies, the majority of cryb mutants expressing Scer\GAL4Mai179 driven cryScer\UAS.cEa do not display circadian locomotor activity rhythms under constant light conditions regardless of the presence or absence of Scer\GAL80Pdf.PS in the genotype.
Similarly to wild-type animals, most of the cryb mutants expressing Scer\GAL4tim.PE driven cryScer\UAS.cEa do not display locomotor activity rhythms under constant light conditions regardless of the presence or absence of Scer\GAL80Pdf.PS in the genotype.
The behavioural rhythmicity seen in cryb flies under intense constant light (wild-type flies are arrhythmic under such conditions) is rescued by expression of cryScer\UAS.cEa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE; the rescued flies are arrhythmic.
Expression of cryScer\UAS.cEa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE rescues the circadian phase-resetting defect seen in cryb flies and restores the wild-type arrhythmicity behaviour that is defective in cryb flies. When cryScer\UAS.cEa is driven by Scer\GAL4P2.4.Pdf, the phase setting defect is rescued at Zeitgeber time (ZT)21, but only partially at ZT15, and the wild-type arrhythmicity behaviour is only partially restored. When cryScer\UAS.cEa is driven by Scer\GAL4ninaE.PD, rescue of neither phenotype is seen. pers; cryb double mutant flies manifest pseudo free-running behaviour under LD conditions, indicative of an entrainment deficit. On addition of cryScer\UAS.cEa driven by Scer\GAL4tim.PE, pers; cryb flies show an activity pattern that resembles very closely that of pers flies. On addition of cryScer\UAS.cEa driven by Scer\GAL4tim.PE, norpA39; cryb flies show an activity pattern that resembles very closely that of norpA39 flies.