Additional lines created; use of a high-throughput embryo sorter allowed screening of very large numbers of animals for GFP-expressing protein trap insertions.
A set of transgenic insertion stocks derived by TE mobilization using the protein-trap constructs P{PTT-GA}, P{PTT-GB}, and P{PTT-GC}. The constructs carry a w+mC mini-white visible marker and an Avic\GFP vital fluorescent protein-trap marker. In each of the three constructs, the splice acceptor and splice donor consensus sequences are in a different reading frame relative to the Avic\GFP sequence. For a successful GFP-positive insertion into an intron of a protein-coding gene, translation results in a fusion of the GFP to both the amino- and carboxyl-terminal parts of the trapped protein.
Insertion reported at coordinate 192168 on AE003493.1.
Strong expression was observed in the anterior-most regions of the ovaries and testes. In females, expression is highest at the anterior tip of the germarium, was reduced in the middle and returned in germ cell cysts in the posterior region of the germarium. In males, expression is highest in the germline stem cells.
AvicGFPPdcd4-G93 protein is expression at the dorsal/ventral compartment boundary of the wing disc. No expression is observed in the haltere disc.