The 480bp eve minimal stripe 2 enhancer (MSE) (sequence from -1.55kb to -1.1kb upstream of the eve transcription start site) is fused upstream of eve basal promoter sequence from -42bp, the 100bp eve leader sequence and the first 22 codons of eve protein coding sequence, fused to the lacZ coding sequence at codon 5.
Comment: eve stripe 2
In early embryos, expression initially detected in a broad region that spans nearly the entire anterior half of the embryo; after a short time, refined into a stripe. Shown to correspond to the second eve stripe, with some quantitative differences in expression along the dorsal-ventral axis.