Project description:To gain an understanding of the toxic effect of a commonly used solvent, flies were exposed to 0, 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4% v/v DMSO for 0, 2, 4, or 8 h. We performed compound exposure of 800 individual flies in 4 Whole Animal Feeding Flats (WAFFL), a novel 96 well system to house, feed, and harvest individual flies. This expression profiling was part of a set of the experiments performed to evaluate the suitability of the WAFFL for high throughput small compound screening in D. melanogaster. Treated flies and controls were used for poly A+ stranded mRNA library preparation and we performed high throughput RNA sequencing to determine the transcriptional changes due to DMSO treatment.
