Fig. 5. Sexually dimorphic pupal expression pattern of Poxn in the genital
region and cuticular phenotype of Poxn
M22-B5 male
genitalia. (A,B) GFP expression is analyzed in ventral views (anterior towards
the left) of male (A) and female (B) w; Poxn-Gal4-14-1/TM6B pupae (48
hours APF) by fluorescence microscopy at a resolution of 10x
magnification. (C) Details of GFP expression in the genital region of male
pupae (72 hours APF), driven by three different Poxn-Gal4 constructs
(Poxn-Gal4-581, Poxn-Gal4-13-1 and Poxn-Gal4-14-7; compare
with Fig. 1B). (D) Frontal view
(with dorsal side up) of cuticle preparations of male genitalia of wild type
(w1118; left) and Poxn mutant (right) under
bright field microscopy at a resolution of 8x magnification. Arrows
indicate anal plate (ap), clasper (cl), lateral plate (lp), penis (pe) and
posterior lobe (pl). The four panels below compare details of the penis (left)
and the posterior lobe, clasper and lateral plate (right) regions between wild
type (wt) and Poxn mutants (Poxn) at a 2- to
2.5-fold greater magnification. Arrows indicate the wild-type penis (pe) and
the penis apodeme (ad) in the Poxn mutant without penis. The four
panels at the bottom illustrate, at the same magnification as the panels
above, the rescue in Poxn mutants of the penis, but not posterior
lobe and clasper, by two copies of EvK, which include the upstream
genitalia enhancer absent from L1, and of the posterior lobe and
clasper, but not penis, by two copies of L1, which include the intron
genitalia enhancer not present in EvK. In the eight panels at the
bottom, posterior is towards the right.