pdm2 expression is driven by a minimal Hsp70 promoter.
In pdm2hs.P embryos heat shocked (90 minutes; 37oC) at 6.45 hours (raised at 22oC), the prescence of 1-2 ectopic RP2 neurons in many hemisegments at stage 14 of embryogenesis is indicated by marker expression and morphological analysis. At stage 12 an 63% of hemisegments in these embryos have an extra 3-5 cells clustered with the developing RP2 neuron and its sib.
The RP2 neurons are duplicated in 2 to 6 hemisegments in approximately 71% of embryos heat shocked at 7 hours of development.
pdm2hs.P has larval RP2 motor neuron | ectopic phenotype, enhanceable by insc22/insc22
pdm2hs.P has larval RP2 motor neuron | ectopic phenotype, suppressible by numb796/numb796
Partially rescues the RP2/sib lineage defect of Df(2L)prd1.7 flies when expressed using heat shock during the time of GMC-1 formation.