Drosophila UAS-silencing lines can be obtained from VDRC RNAi collection 2. A collection of GAL4-driver lines is available at the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (Indiana, USA).
Equipment
Required equipment includes Laser microdissector (Leica LMD6000), Coulter Microfuge 22R (Beckman), PCR (BIO-RAD My Cycler), Real Time PCR (BIO-RAD iQ5).
Tools
Required tools include: glass wells, brush, microdissection forceps, hanging drop slides, insect pins mounted on syringe needles, metal frames with PET membrane, plastic tubes (50 ml, 05 ml, 0.25 ml).
Vicidomini, R., Tortoriello, G., Furia, M., Polese, G. Laser Microdissection Applied to Gene Expression Profiling of Subset of Cells from the Drosophila Wing Disc. J. Vis. Exp. (38), e1895, doi:10.3791/1895 (2010).