(A–D) Shown are fly eyes obtained by the cell-lethal method. (A) In the unflipped control, the GMR-hid transgene ablates most heterozygous cells and provides red eye pigment. (B) In trans to a wild type chromosome, the twin spot cells survive and re-populate the eye with a few red surviving cells from the dominant marker (GMR-hid). (C,D) Neither cos2 nor ptc mutant tissue generate a full sized adult eye. Especially ptc mutant eyes are significantly reduced in size (D).
(E–G) Anti-Hid antibody labelings of control (E), cos2 (F) and ptc (G) mosaic eye discs obtained by ey-FLP-induced mitotic recombination. In cos2 and ptc mutant clones posterior to the MF, Hid levels are elevated (arrows).
Genotypes:
(A)
y w; FRT42 GMR-hid l(2)CL-R/+; ey-GAL4 UAS-FLP
(B)
y w; FRT42 GMR-hid l(2)CL-R/FRT42; ey-GAL4 UAS-FLP
(C)
y w; FRT42 GMR-hid l(2)CL-R/FRT42 cos2H29 y+; ey-GAL4 UAS-FLP
(D)
y w; FRT42 GMR-hid l(2)CL-R/FRT42 ptcC y+; ey-GAL4 UAS-FLP
(E)
y w ey-FLP; FRT42 ubi-GFP/CyO
(F)
y w ey-FLP; FRT42 cos2H29 /FRT42 ubi-GFP
(G)
y w ey-FLP; FRT42 ptcC /FRT42 ubi-GFP