Drosophila melanogaster stocks and crosses were maintained in humidified incubators at 25°C with 12 hr light-dark cycles. The alleles Nab2ex3 (null), Nab2pex41 (precise excision 41; control), and UAS-Flag-Nab2 have been described previously (Pak et al., 2011 (link); Kelly et al., 2014 (link)). Lines from Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC): GMR-Gal4 (#1350), elavC155-Gal4 (#458), msl-2227 (#5871), msl-2kmA (#25158), mle9 (#5873), roX1ex6 (#43647), UAS-Mettl3, UAS-Mettl3-RNAi (#80450), fl(2)d2 (#36302), vir2F (#77886). The Mettl3null, UAS-Mettl3, and YthdcΔN alleles were all kind gifts of J-Y. Roignant. The Nab2ex3,Mettl3null and Nab2ex3, YthdcΔN chromosomes were generated by meiotic recombination and confirmed by genomic PCR. A total of 200 recombinant lines were screened to identify Nab2,Mettl3 double mutants.
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