Project description:In order to study how ectopic Yki drives tissue overgrowth in Drosophila imaginal discs, we overexpressed the constitutively active Yki3SA and deleted wts in clones of cells in the entire eye-antennal imaginal disc, as well as specifically in eye disc proper cells using Optix-Gal4. Using the MARCM system allowed us to compare the effects of Yki3SA overexpression in wild-type and sd mutant clones.
Project description:The aim of this data set is to perform a differential expression analysis between wild type eye-antennal imaginal disc and discs that are homozygous glass mutant gl[60j]. This data set is used to validate Glass target gene predictions identified by i-cisTarget on a set of conserved eye-specific genes. RNA-seq was performed in eye-antennal imaginal discs of two D.melanogaster wild-type strains (Canton S and strain RAL-208 (Jordan et al. 2007, Ayroles et al. 2009)), representing two biological replicates; and in glass mutant (gl[60j]) discs for two technical replicates.
Project description:The aim of this data set is to perform a differential expression analysis between wild type eye-antennal imaginal disc and discs that are homozygous glass mutant gl[60j]. This data set is used to validate Glass target gene predictions identified by i-cisTarget on a set of conserved eye-specific genes.
Project description:Eye-stalks of some flies exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism, but little is known about the genetic mechanisms producing variation in these ornamental traits. Therefore, we constructed an EST database of genes expressed in the developing eye-antennal imaginal disc of the highly dimorphic species, Teleopsis dalmanni, and used this set of genes to construct high density oligoarrays and compare patterns of gene expression between lines of flies selected for divergent eyespan. Microarray experiments using eye-antennal disc tissue identified over 350 genes with significant differential expression between male flies from lines selected for high and low relative eyespan but did not reveal any primary biological process or pathway that is driving the expression differences.
Project description:Whole-chromatin profile (FAIRE-seq) in three Drosophila species (D. melanogaster, D. pseudoobscura and D. virilis) in eye-antennal imaginal discs at the stage of third instar wandering larvae. By the use of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck methods, we assess the evolutionary forces acting on regulatory elements (cis-level) on chromatin activity across Drosophila eye-antennal imaginal discs at the stage of third instar larvae.
Project description:Eye-stalks of some flies exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism, but little is known about the genetic mechanisms producing variation in these ornamental traits. Therefore, we constructed an EST database of genes expressed in the developing eye-antennal imaginal disc of the highly dimorphic species, Teleopsis dalmanni, and used this set of genes to construct high density oligoarrays and compare patterns of gene expression between lines of flies selected for divergent eyespan. Microarray experiments using eye-antennal disc tissue identified over 350 genes with significant differential expression between male flies from lines selected for high and low relative eyespan but did not reveal any primary biological process or pathway that is driving the expression differences. Custom 4x44K Agilent arrays were designed for approximately 3600 unique genes. Each gene was represented by three 60 bp oligo probes and each probe was printed in triplicate on each array. Each oligoarray was hybridized with two biological samples labeled either with cy3 or cy5. Each sample came from 25 sets of eye-antennal imaginal discs that were dissected from gut-purged male larvae. Samples were from lines of flies that had been under directional selection on males to either increase or decrease relative eyespan for 65 generations. Dye labeling was switched between lines for every other array. Ratios of median intensities were averaged across probes for each gene and then analyzed by SAM to identify genes with differential expression between lines.
Project description:Growth of the drosophila eye imaginal discs is controlled by the activation of Notch in the dorsal-ventral boundary. Overexpression in the eye disc of the Notch ligand Delta together with lola and pipsqueak from the GS(2)88A8 line induces tumoral growth. We used microarray to analyze the expression profile of tumoral discs. Antennal-eye discs of Drosophila L3 larvae were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrayas. Two genetic conditions were analyzed: tumoral eye discs (ey-Gal4 GS(2)88A8 UAS-Dl) and control eye discs (GS(2)88A8 UAS-Dl). Three different biological replicates of each condition, each one consisting on 300 hundred pairs of eye discs, were analyzed.
Project description:In this study we use Tag-sequencing in eye-antennal and wing imaginal discs across Drosophila species to determine a set of conserved eye-specific developmental genes. Next, we perform motif discovery analysis using the tool i-cisTarget, to depict the core gene developmental network underlying compound eye photoreceptor. The Glass position weight matrix appears as the most highly overrepresented motif, thus positioning Glass as a master regulator in compound eye photoreceptor development. Differential gene expression analysis by RNA-seq in D.melanogaster wild-type eye-antennal versus glass mutant [gl 60j] shows that the majority of our predicted Glass targets show strong downregulation in the glass mutant. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE39781: RNA-seq in wild-type and glass mutant eye-antennal discs in Drosophila melanogaster GSE39782: Tag-seq profiling in eye-antennal and wing imaginal discs of D. melanogaster, D. yakuba and D. virilis