Homozygous males show an increase in the total amount of cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control males. They show a significant increase in the relative proportion of linear cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control males.
Males expressing desat1EpB3 under the control of Scer\GAL4desat1-1573-1 in a desat11573-1/+ background show an increase in the total amount of cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control males. The mutant males show a significant decrease in the relative proportion of desaturated cuticular hydrocarbons and a significant increase in the relative proportions of both linear and methyl branched cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control males.
Males expressing desat1EpB3 under the control of Scer\GAL4desat1-1573-C'1 in a desat11573-C'1/+ background show an increase in the total amount of cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control males. The mutant males show a significant decrease in the relative proportions of both desaturated and methyl branched cuticular hydrocarbons and a significant increase in the relative proportion of linear cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control males.
Homozygous females show an increase in the total amount of cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control females. The relative proportions of linear, desaturated and methyl branched cuticular hydrocarbons is the same in homozygous and control females.
Females expressing desat1EpB3 under the control of Scer\GAL4desat1-1573-1 in a desat11573-1/+ background show an increase in the total amount of cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control females. The mutant females show a significant decrease in the relative proportions of desaturated cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control females.
Females expressing desat1EpB3 under the control of Scer\GAL4desat1-1573-C'1 in a desat11573-C'1/+ background show an increase in the total amount of cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control females. The mutant females show a significant decrease in the relative proportions of both desaturated and methyl branched cuticular hydrocarbons compared to control females.
Males expressing desat1EpB3 under the control of Scer\GAL4desat1-1573-1 in a desat11573-1/+ background show a normally high ability to discriminate between male and female control flies in a courtship assay, having a significantly higher courtship index towards females than towards males.
Males expressing desat1EpB3 under the control of Scer\GAL4desat1-1573-C'1 in a desat11573-C'1/+ background do not discriminate between male and female control flies in a courtship assay.
Homozygous males show a normally high ability to discriminate between male and female control flies in a courtship assay, having a significantly higher courtship index towards females than towards males.