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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chronobiol Int. 2018 Apr 5;35(7):1016–1026. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2018.1454937

Table 1.

Knocking down Dstac in PDF neurons increases arrhythmicity and free-running periods in DD and decreases morning startle response in LD.

DD 5–13 LD 3–6
Genotype Rhythmicity Free-running periods Morning startle response
n rhythmic
(%)		 p
(Fischer’s
Exact test)		 Hours
Mean
(±SEM)		 p (Dunn’s
Multiple
Comparison
test)		 Normalized
Mean
(±SEM)		 p (Wilcoxon
Signed
Rank test)
yw,PDF-GAL4/y;+;+ 32 (100) 0.0001 24.11
(±0.04)		 < 0.0001 6.168
(±2.37)		 <0.0001
yw/y;+;UAS-DCR2/+ 29 (93) 0.0106 24.16
(±0.08)		 0.0001 6.605
(±1.24)		 <0.0001
yw/y;UAS-Dstac-
RNAi/+;+ 		29 (93) 0.0106 24.24
(±0.16)		 0.0139 14.590
(±6.18)		 <0.0001
yw/y;UAS-Dstac-
RNAi/+;UAS-DCR2/+ 		31 (96) 0.0012 24.42
(±0.37)		 < 0.0001 7.601
(±2.85)		 <0.0001
yw,PDF-GAL4/y;+;UAS-
DCR2/+ 		27 (90) 0.0311 24.06
(±0.33)		 0.0368 1.879
(±0.11)		 <0.0001
yw,PDF-GAL4/y;UAS-
Dstac-RNAi/+;+ 		28 (93) 0.0106 24.80
(±0.05)		 > 0.9999 2.115
(±0.34)		 0.0002
yw,PDF-GAL4/y;UAS-
Dstac-RNAi/+;UAS-
DCR2/+ 		20 (64) ------ 24.80
(±0.11)# 		------ 1.156
(±0.10)		 0.1870

n = number of flies tested

#

denotes significantly different from all other genotypes except for yw,PDF-GAL4/y;UAS-Dstac-RNAi/+;+