A composite of the slp1 distal early stripe element (DESE) enhancer fragment (-8710 to -6506bp) and the slp1 proximal early stripe element (PESE) enhancer fragment (-3.9 to -1.8kb) fused to basal slp1 promoter sequences from -261 to +121bp drives expression of lacZ (all slp1 coordinates relative to the slp1 transcription start site).