Fertility assays involving males knockdown for ERR in different tissues of their reproductive tract revealed that BG01278-GAL4 (BL12608, hereafter referred to as testes-GAL4) driven ERR knockdown in late spermatogonia, early spermatocytes, cyst cells, pigment cells, muscle sheath of the testicular lobes and/or seminal vesicles caused significant reduction (Fig. 1A; p < 0.001) in the fertility of females mated to knock down males. Here, SLC7A1 is linked to cyst.