Genetic Tools for Drosophila Neuroscience

The following lines were used: Or83b-Gal4 (Larsson et al., 2004 (link)); Gr-Gal4 collection including Gr68a-Gal4² (Weiss et al., 2011 (link)); Gr68a-Gal4¹ (Bray and Amrein, 2003 (link)); ppk23-Gal4, Δppk23, and Δppk29 (Thistle et al., 2012 (link)); Voila¹ (Balakireva et al., 1998 (link)); NPF-Gal4 and NPFR1-Gal4 (Wu et al., 2003 (link)); c929-Gal4 (Hewes et al., 2003 (link)); oeno-Gal4 and UAS-hid, stinger (Billeter et al., 2009 (link)); tsh-Gal80 (kind gift of Julie Simpson); UAS-GCaMP5G (Akerboom et al., 2012 (link)); ΔTK1, ΔTK2, and UAS-TK (Asahina et al., 2014 (link)); UAS-spGFP and LexAop-spGFP (Gordon and Scott, 2009 (link)); TK-Gal4¹ (#51975), TK-Gal4² (#51974), TK-Gal4³ (#51973), TK-LexA (#54080), UAS-mCD8:GFP, UAS-stinger, UAS-syt.eGFP, UAS-reaper, UAS-dORKΔC, UAS-DTI, UAS-Shibire^ts1, UAS-dTrpA1 (Bloomington Stock Center, Indiana, USA); UAS-Gr68a-RNAi (13380, 13381 from VDRC, Vienna, AU) and UAS-TK-RNAi (103662 from VDRC). All other stocks used for screening are described in Table 2.