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. 2017 Jul 28;7:6796. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07179-8

Figure 1.

Figure 1

cdk9 is necessary for glial survival. (a–h) Representative images of 7d old adult brains immunostained with anti-Repo to label glia for Fig. 1i,j. The images are maximum projections of optical sections. The outlined area demarcates the region of the central brain where the number of glia were quantified. (i) Number of anti-Repo-expressing glia in the central brain of 7d old adult flies in mir-31a mutants (mir-31a KO/KO) and where UAS-GFP, UAS-CG16947, UAS-cdk9 RNAi or UAS-p53 RNAi lines were expressed in glia using Repo-Gal4. Glia were represented as a percentage of the control animals, Repo-Gal4 > UAS-GFP (left axis). Raw number of Repo-expressing glia in the central brain of the genotypes (right axis). One-way ANOVA was used for statistical analysis and error bars represent SEM. (j) Number of anti-Repo-expressing glia in the central brain of 7d old adult flies. UAS-GFP, UAS-CG16947 and UAS-cdk9 RNAi expression was driven by Repo-Gal4 under the control of tubulin Gal80ts (tubGal80ts). Adult-only expression was achieved by rearing the flies at 18 °C then moving the flies to 29 °C to allow Repo-Gal4 activity after eclosion. Data is represented as a percentage of the number of glia in the UAS-GFP control condition (left axis). Raw number of Repo-expressing glia in the central brain of the genotypes (right axis). One-way ANOVA was used for statistical analysis and error bars represent SEM.