Table 2.
Commonly used Gal4 lines for studying spermatogenesis
| Cell type | Name | Insertion | Chr | BDSC # | Kyoto DGRC # |
Expression | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hub | Upd-Gal4 | P{upd-Gal4.U} | 1 | Hub | [132] | ||
| Hh-Gal4 | P{GAL4}hhGal4 | 3 | Hub | [163] | |||
| Fas3-Gal4 | P{GawB}NP1233 | 1 | 103948 | Hub | [164] | ||
| Soma | Tj-Gal4 | P{GawB}NP1624 | 2 | 104055 | CySCs and early cyst cells | [165] | |
| c587-Gal4 | P{GAL4}C587 | 1 | CySCs and early cyst cells | [166, 167] | |||
| Dpp-Gal4 | P{dpp-GAL4.PS} | 3 | 7007 | Hub and CySCs | [168] | ||
| Eya-Gal4 | P{eya-GAL4.A3} | 2 | Late cyst cells | [19] | |||
| Ptc-Gal4 | P{GawB}ptc559.1 | 2 | 2017 | 106629 | CySCs and cyst cells | [169] | |
| Germ line | Nanos-Gal4 | P{GalAL4-nos.NGT}40 | 2 | 4442 | 107748 | GSCs and early germline cysts | [170] |
| Nanos-Gal4-VP16 | P{GAL4::VP16-nos.UTR} CG6325[MVD1] | 3 | 4937 | GSCs and early germline cysts | [171] | ||
| Nanos-Gal4-VP16 | {GAL4::VP16-Nos.UTR}MVD2 | 1 | 7303 | GSCs and early | [171] | ||
| germline cysts | |||||||
| Bam-Gal4-VP16 | P{bam-GAL4:VP16} | 2 | Mitotic germline cysts | [144] | |||
| Vasa-Gal4 | P{vas-Gal4.2.6} | 2 | Germline | [172] | |||
| Germline and soma | Gal4 | P{tubP-Gal4}LL7 | 3 | 5138 | 108069 | Germline and soma | [173] |