A heat shock promoter drives expression of the AGO1 LD09501 cDNA.
Expression of AGO1hs.PK in females using heat shock results in an increase in the number of spectrosome-containing germ cells per germarium compared to wild-type controls. 5-10% of germaria are morphologically tumorous after 10 days of heat shock (3 heat shocks per day).
Overexpression of AGO1hs.PK in a wild-type background has no effect in the embryonic cuticle pattern.
AGO1hs.PK rescues AGO1k08121