Journal: eLife

Article Title: Fruitless mutant male mosquitoes gain attraction to human odor

doi: 10.7554/eLife.63982

Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A, B ) Arm-next-to-cage assay schematic A and image B with female (top) and male (bottom) Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. ( C ) Percent mosquitoes next to arm measured every 30 s. Data are mean ± s.e.m., n = 6 trials, n = 20 mosquitoes/trial; *p<0.05, Mann-Whitney test for each time point. ( D, E ) Schematic of Aedes aegypti fruitless genomic locus D and sex-specific splicing region with RNA-seq read evidence E . ( F ) Phylogeny of mosquito species with outgroup Drosophila melanogaster , with conserved fruitless exon structure inferred from de novo transcriptome assembly. In E , F , coding and non-coding exons are represented by filled and open dashed bars, respectively. Toxorhynchites rutilus and Culex salinarius images were used to represent Toxorhynchites amboinensis or Culex quinquefasciatus , respectively. See acknowledgments for photo credits. Cartoons indicate blood-feeding (blood drop) and non-blood-feeding (flower) species. ( G, H ) Aedes aegypti fruitless exon usage based on male and female RNA-seq data (normalized counts) from the indicated tissue plotted for each exon G and m, f, and c1 exons H n = 3–4 independent RNA-seq replicates . ( I ) Schematic of generation of fruitless ∆M and fruitless ∆M-tdTomato mutants. Figure 1—source data 1. Source data for .

Article Snippet: Brains were incubated in 0.25% PBT plus 2% normal goat serum with primary antibodies at the following dilutions: rabbit anti-RFP (Rockland 600-401-379) 1:200 and mouse anti- Drosophila melanogaster Brp (nc82) 1:5000.

Techniques: MANN-WHITNEY, RNA Sequencing

Journal: eLife

Article Title: Fruitless mutant male mosquitoes gain attraction to human odor

doi: 10.7554/eLife.63982

Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) Heat-seeking assay schematic. A 20 s pulse of 10% CO 2 is added to the assay. ( B ) Percent of animals on Peltier. Data are mean ± s.e.m., n = 6 trials/temperature, n = 50 mosquitoes/trial. Data labeled with different letters are significantly different from each other, within each temperature. ( C ) Schematic of human odor host-seeking assay (left) and stimuli (right). ( D ) Percent of attracted animals. Data are mean ± s.e.m., n = 8–14 trials/group, n = 17–28 mosquitoes/trial. ( E–F ) Summary of results and model of gain of fruitless function in Aedes aegypti . Photo credit: Aedes aegypti (Alex Wild); D. melanogaster (Nicolas Gompel). In B , D , data labeled with different letters are significantly different from each other (Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple comparisons, p<0.05). In B , comparisons are made between genotypes at each temperature. In D , comparisons are made across all genotypes and stimuli. Figure 5—source data 1. Source data for .

Article Snippet: Brains were incubated in 0.25% PBT plus 2% normal goat serum with primary antibodies at the following dilutions: rabbit anti-RFP (Rockland 600-401-379) 1:200 and mouse anti- Drosophila melanogaster Brp (nc82) 1:5000.

Techniques: Labeling

Journal: EMBO Reports

Article Title: Pumilio differentially binds to mRNA 3′ UTR isoforms to regulate localization of synaptic proteins

doi: 10.1038/s44319-025-00401-z

Figure Lengend Snippet: Reagents and tools table

Article Snippet: For NMJ immunofluorescence, mouse anti-Syt1 (DSHB #3H2 2D7-s), mouse anti-BRP (DSHB #nc82-c), goat anti-HRP (Jackson ImmunoResearch #123-605-021) and donkey anti-mouse (Abcam #ab150106) were used at concentrations: 1:50, 1:50, 1:50, and 1:500, respectively.

Techniques: Recombinant, Sequencing, Magnetic Beads, SYBR Green Assay, cDNA Synthesis, Protease Inhibitor, Plasmid Preparation, Software, Membrane, Microscopy