A 3912 base pair fragment from the flanking non-coding or intronic region of dsx is fused upstream of a Drosophila core synthetic promoter (DSCP) that is followed by sequence encoding a GAL4 driver.
ScerGAL4GMR42D04 drives expression in a subcuticular patch of the prothoracic tarsal segment adjacent to the sex comb, faintly in some skeletal muscles of the thorax, the female gonopod and a few bright cells in the testicular duct.