The following information accompanied stocks donated to the Bloomington Stock Center by Kajan Ratnakumar and Claude Desplan, New York University (6/03).
In P{Rh4-lacZ.PD}, lacZ expression is driven by the rhodopsin 4 promoter. This construct was constructed in the same manner as the other rhodopsin-lacZ transgenes described in Papatsenko et al., 2001 (Mech. Dev. 101:143-153 ; FBrf0134746).
P{Rh4-lacZ.PD}2 is a homozygous viable and fertile, second chromosome insertion.
P{Rh4-lacZ.PD}3 is a homozygous viable and fertile, third chromosome insertion.