Pan-neuronal expression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa in adult flies (using 31[o]C heat-induced Scer\GAL4nSyb.PS in combination with Scer\GAL80ts.αTub84B) significantly decreases wall following behavior in an arena and decreases the percentage of time spent in a shaded area in a light or dark choice assay (posited measures of decreased anxiety), compared to non-induced (18[o]C) controls; walking speed is significantly decreased in flies both with and without the Scer\GAL4nSyb.PS driver.
Expression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL45-HTR1B does not affect either the total amount of sleep or sleep consolidation, measured as the average length of sleep bouts.
Expression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa in clock neurons, under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE, significantly reduces the magnitude of the phase shift induced by a short light pulse in the late (CT20) as well as in the early subjective night (CT15). Expression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4elav-C155 or Scer\GAL45-HT1B also reduces phase shift, although to a lesser extent. Flies carrying two copies of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa and two copies of Scer\GAL45-HT1B exhibit reduced phase shifts, to a similar extent as those with single copies of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa and Scer\GAL4tim.PE. Expression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4GMR.PF has no such effect, suggesting that central clock neurons, instead of photoreceptor cells in the eye, are the relevant target cells of this inhibitory effect.
The rest-activity rhythms of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa expressing flies (under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE) in light-dark and dark-dark cycles are similar to those of wild-type flies. Overexpression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa does not affect per cycling in free-running conditions.
Flies overexpressing 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE exhibit increased rhythmicity in constant bright light (2500 lux), compared to controls. The difference is more significant in weaker illumination (250 lux).
5-HT1BRNAi.UAS, 5-HT1BUAS.cYa, Scer\GAL4tim.PE has abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype, suppressible by cryb, Scer\GAL4tim.PE
5-HT1BUAS.cYa, Scer\GAL4tim.PE is a suppressor | partially of abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype of Scer\GAL4tim.PE, sggUAS.cBa
Scer\GAL4Mef2.247.Switch/5-HT1BUAS.cYa is a non-suppressor of abnormal behavior phenotype of 5-HT1AΔ5kb
5-HT1BUAS.cYa, Scer\GAL4tim.PE, cryb has abnormal circadian rhythm phenotype
Expression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa, under the control of Scer\GAL4Mef2.247.Switch does not rescue the 5-HT1AΔ5kb sleep phenotype.
Overexpression of 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE in a cryb homozygous background does not have a discernible effect on the flies light sensitivity due to the strong phenotype produced by the cryb mutation. However, ~87% of the cryb heterozygotes overexpressing 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE are rhythmic in constant bright light, while only 13% of the control flies are rhythmic under these conditions. Fast Fourier Transform analysis indicates that cryb heterozygous flies overexpressing 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE have very strong behavioural rhythms in constant bright light, although the average period is lengthened to about 28 hours.
Reducing 5-HT1B expression, through induction of 5-HT1BIR.Scer\UAS, under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE, or increasing cry levels through cryScer\UAS.cDa expression, eliminates the strong behavioural rhythms in constant bright light observed in cryb heterozygous flies overexpressing 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE.
A large number (~43%) of cryb flies overexpressing 5-HT1BScer\UAS.cYa under the control of Scer\GAL4tim.PE are arrhythmic in dark-dark conditions, as compared to 7% in control cryb flies.