[PDF][PDF] GAL4 system in drosophila: A fly geneticist's swiss army knife

JB Duffy - genesis, 2002‏ - fenix.ciencias.ulisboa.pt
The last decade has seen an enormous expansion in the genetic toolbox of model
organisms. This has been particularly apparent in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, in …

Genetic dissection of neural circuits

L Luo, EM Callaway, K Svoboda - Neuron, 2008‏ - cell.com
Understanding the principles of information processing in neural circuits requires systematic
characterization of the participating cell types and their connections, and the ability to …

Hippo signaling instructs ectopic but not normal organ growth

W Kowalczyk, L Romanelli, M Atkins, H Hillen… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The Hippo signaling pathway is widely considered a master regulator of organ growth
because of the prominent overgrowth phenotypes caused by experimental manipulation of …

A neural circuit architecture for angular integration in Drosophila

J Green, A Adachi, KK Shah, JD Hirokawa, PS Magani… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Many animals keep track of their angular heading over time while navigating through their
environment. However, a neural-circuit architecture for computing heading has not been …

A gene-specific T2A-GAL4 library for Drosophila

PT Lee, J Zirin, O Kanca, WW Lin, KL Schulze… - elife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
We generated a library of~ 1000 Drosophila stocks in which we inserted a construct in the
intron of genes allowing expression of GAL4 under control of endogenous promoters while …

[HTML][HTML] The Q system: a repressible binary system for transgene expression, lineage tracing, and mosaic analysis

CJ Potter, B Tasic, EV Russler, L Liang, L Luo - Cell, 2010‏ - cell.com
We describe a new repressible binary expression system based on the regulatory genes
from the Neurospora qa gene cluster. This" Q system" offers attractive features for transgene …

Molecular, anatomical, and functional organization of the Drosophila olfactory system

A Couto, M Alenius, BJ Dickson - Current Biology, 2005‏ - cell.com
Summary Background: Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) convey chemical information into
the brain, producing internal representations of odors detected in the periphery. A …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic manipulation of genes and cells in the nervous system of the fruit fly

KJT Venken, JH Simpson, HJ Bellen - Neuron, 2011‏ - cell.com
Research in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has led to insights in neural development,
axon guidance, ion channel function, synaptic transmission, learning and memory, diurnal …

The VT GAL4, LexA, and split-GAL4 driver line collections for targeted expression in the Drosophila nervous system

L Tirian, BJ Dickson - BioRxiv, 2017‏ - biorxiv.org
In studying the cellular interactions within complex tissues, it is extremely valuable to be able
to reproducibly and flexibly target transgene expression to restricted subsets of cells. This …

The sex of organ geometry

L Blackie, P Gaspar, S Mosleh, O Lushchak, L Kong… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Organs have a distinctive yet often overlooked spatial arrangement in the body,,,–. We
propose that there is a logic to the shape of an organ and its proximity to its neighbours …