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Expression data from transgenic Drosophila melanogaster adults which contain a knockdown effector of cyp6g1, compared to control flies

ABSTRACT: To test whether other genes were being silenced in the Cyp6g1 knockdown strain due to off-target RNAi effects, and whether other gene expression changes were contributing to the altered susceptibility to imidacloprid in these knockdown flies. A comparison between w;Act5C-GAL4/CyO; UAS:RNAi_Cyp6g1Hp2/TM3Sb and the genetic control w;Act-GAL4/CyO;+/TM3Sb was performed. Ten 2-3 day old adult males or females were transferred to sugar-agar plates and then collected at various time points (0, 2, 5, 8 hours). The RNA samples for up to three independent experiments per timepoint for each genotype were then pooled, in equal concentrations, before hybridisation to the Affymetrix Drosophila GeneChip 1. As a preliminary analysis provided evidence for assuming that there is no interaction between genotype and duration in the sugar-agar plate, the knockdown and control chips for each of the five timepoints provided some degree of replication for the comparison between the knockdown flies and control flies. Differential expression that was consistently observed between knockdown and control over each of the five timepoints was regarded as providing evidence of a genuine difference.

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster

PROVIDER: GSE27344 | GEO | 2011/02/17

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA142089

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Expression data from transgenic Drosophila melanogaster adults which contain a knockdown effector of cyp6g1, compared to control flies

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