A genomic rescue construct containing wcy genomic sequence with additional 2400 base pairs both upstream and downstream, obtained from the bacterial artificial chromosome clone CH321-45K19.
wcy+tGR rescues lethality in wcyA/wcyA, wcyB/wcyB, wcyC/wcyC, wcyD/wcyD or wcyF/wcyF mutants. wcy+tGR rescues retinal morphology and electroretinogram defects in wcyA/wcyA mutants and rescues electroretinogram defects in wcyB/wcyB or wcyC/wcyC mutants. wcy+tGR rescues starvation induced autophagy defects in wcyA/wcyA third instar larval fat body clones. wcy+tGR rescues the programmed autophagy phenotype in wcyA/wcyA third instar larval fat body clones.