Expression of tllmiRNA.Scer\UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4CG13917-BG01278 has no significant effect on male fertility (number of progeny produced by wild-type females mated to the knock-down males).
The expression of tllmiRNA.UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4C855a leads to significantly smaller larval and pharate adult optic lobes (including inner and outer proliferating centers, lamina and medulla) and all pharate optic ganglia apart from the lamina cannot be distinguished from each other; the larval optic lobe also present severely disrupted lamina columns with severely decreased numbers of lamina precursor cells (identified by Dac immunostaining) and a reduced or completely absent lamina furrow. Clonal expression under the control of Scer\GAL4Tub.PU results in clonal cells showing an increase in apoptosis (cleaved Casp-3) and being extruded from the neuroepithelium to become aberrantly localized in the medulla cortex.
Expression using Scer\GAL4ey-OK107 results in 100% of mushroom bodies having only a few neurons left.
Scer\GAL4ey-OK107-mediated expression of tllmiRNA.Scer\UAS affects mushroom body proliferation, resulting in a tiny adult mushroom body purely consisting of early-type mushroom body neurons.
Scer\GAL4Tub.PU, tllRNAi.UAS has increased cell death | somatic clone | larval stage phenotype, suppressible by BacA\p35UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
Scer\GAL4Tub.PU, tllRNAi.UAS has larval outer optic anlage | somatic clone phenotype, suppressible by BacA\p35UAS.cHa, Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
The co-expression of BacA\p35UAS.cHa suppresses the increased apoptosis induced by the clonal expression of tllmiRNA.UAS under the control of Scer\GAL4Tub.PU, leading to large clones that remain in the neuroepithelium but show abnormal epithelial morphology, namely ectopic folds; neuroepithelial cells in these clones can transform into neuroblasts, as expected in controls.