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Comparison of testis transcriptome changes resulting from mutations in dany and representative meiotic arrest genes

ABSTRACT: The Drosophila gene dany is expressed specifically in spermatocytes and encodes a nuclear protein with similarity to the products of the genes distal antenna (dan) and distal antenna-related (danr). Loss of dany function results in male sterility. Mutant spermatocytes fail to differentiate similar as previously observed in mutants lacking tTAF and tMAC function. Microarray analyses were performed to characterize the effects of loss of dany function on gene expression in testis and for a comparison of the effects with those caused by mutations in the tTAF gene spermatocyte arrest (sa) and the tMAC genes always early (aly) and matotopetli (topi) RNA was isolated after testis dissection from adult males and used for the production of probes for microarray hybridization. Five different genotypes were used for testis dissection: control, dany mutant, sa mutant, aly mutant, topi mutant. The number of biological replicates per genotypes was between two and four.

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster

SUBMITTER: Christian Lehner

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-76298 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Drosophila dany is essential for transcriptional control and nuclear architecture in spermatocytes.

Trost Martina M Blattner Ariane C AC Leo Stefano S Lehner Christian F CF

Development (Cambridge, England) 20160701 14

The terminal differentiation of adult stem cell progeny depends on transcriptional control. A dramatic change in gene expression programs accompanies the transition from proliferating spermatogonia to postmitotic spermatocytes, which prepare for meiosis and subsequent spermiogenesis. More than a thousand spermatocyte-specific genes are transcriptionally activated in early Drosophila spermatocytes. Here we describe the identification and initial characterization of dany, a gene required in sperma ...[more]

PMID: 27436041

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Comparison of testis transcriptome changes resulting from mutations in dany and representative meiotic arrest genes

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Drosophila dany is essential for transcriptional control and nuclear architecture in spermatocytes.

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