Figure 4.
Assessment of fertility in paralogue knockdown and rescue genotypes determined by number of eclosed progeny. F1 male fertility was assessed by number of eclosed progeny per male when mated with a single wildtype female. Compared to all other genotypes, eRpL22-like-FLAG rescue males have a significant decrease in number of progeny per male. eRpL22-like paralogue knockdown was performed with bam-GAL4-VP16. eRpL22-like-FLAG overexpression was driven by Actin-GAL4. The eRpL22-like OE and eRpL22 OE rescues were driven with Actin-GAL4. FLAG (FL), knockdown (KD), overexpression (OE), and rescue are listed below genotypes. Error bars represents one standard deviation, * represents a p < 0.01 according to t-test, graph represents the mean of 10 males. The genotypes of males from each fertility cross are listed from left to right: Wildtype, bam>eRpL22-like.IR, Act>eRpL22-like-FLAG, Act>eRpL22-like-FLAG/eRpL22.IR, Act>FLAG-eRpL22/eRpL22.IR.