Table 1. Heat-shock inducible genes examined in this study.

Species	Gene	Promoter length	Endogenous induction	Endogenous expression
D. melanogaster	hsp26	696 bp	90 fold	Spermatocytes, nurse cells, epithelium, imaginal discs, proventriculus and neurocytes
D. melanogaster	hsp70Aa	783 bp	200 fold	Third instar lavae. No expression without heat shock. Rapid induction in brain, salivary glands, imaginal disks and hindgut
D. melanogaster	hsp27	605 bp	14 fold	Early larval brain and gonads, imaginal discs of early pupae, adult central nervous system and germline
S. cerevisiae	ssa3	1117 bp	20 fold	N/A
H. sapiens	hsp105	1398 bp	28 fold	N/A