Aberration Dmel\Df(2L)VA20

General Information
Symbol	Dmel\Df(2L)VA20	Species	D. melanogaster
Name		FlyBase ID	FBab0001674
Feature type	chromosomal_deletion
Also Known As	VA20

Computed Breakpoints include	37A1-37A6;37D5
Deleted segment	37A1--37D5
Sequence coordinates
Member of large scale dataset(s)
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Nature of the Aberration
Cytological Order
Progenitor
Mutagen	diepoxybutane (Stathakis et al., 1995)
Class of aberration (relative to progenitor)	chromosomal_deletion (Stathakis et al., 1995)
Breakpoints	37B2-37B8;37D5 (Stathakis et al., 1995)
Causes alleles
Carries alleles
Transposon Insertions
Formalized genetic data	l(2)36Ff << bk1 << l(2)37Ac << l(2)37Db << bk2 << l(2)37De
Genetic mapping information
Comments
Comments on Cytology
	Ref: Nolan et al., 1991, Potmesil, Kohn, 1991: 23--40. (Stathakis et al., 1995) Left limit of break 1 from non-inclusion of l(2)36Ff (citation unavailable) Right limit of break 1 from inclusion of l(2)37Ac (citation unavailable) Limits of break 2 from polytene analysis (FBrf0084402)
Sequence Crossreferences
DDBJ / EMBL / GenBank	DNA sequence Protein sequence Name
Gene Deletion & Duplication Data
Genes Deleted / Disrupted
Complementation Data
Completely deleted / disrupted	brat (Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983) Ddc (Stathakis et al., 1995) l(2)37Db (Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983)
Molecular Data
Genes NOT Deleted / Disrupted
Complementation Data
	l(2)37Dc (Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983) l(2)37De (Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983) l(2)37Di (Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983) swm (Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983) tj (Li et al., 2003)
Molecular Data
Genes Duplicated
Complementation Data
Molecular Data
Genes NOT Duplicated
Complementation Data
Molecular Data
Related Comments

Phenotypic Data
In combination with other aberrations
NOT in combination with other aberrations
Stocks ( 0 )

Notes on Origin
Discoverer

Balancer / Genotype Variants of the Aberration

Separable Components

Other Comments
	37D5 breakpoint is between position +16.2 and +17.0 on the Ddc map relative to the HpaI restriction site near the 3' end of Ddc. (Stathakis et al., 1995)
Synonyms & Secondary IDs ( 2 )
Reported As
Symbol Synonym	Df(2L)VA20 VA20 (Moore et al., 2002, Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983)
Name Synonym
Secondary FlyBase IDs

References ( 7 )
Research paper	Li et al., 2003, Nat. Cell Biol. 5(11): 994--1000 The large Maf factor Traffic Jam controls gonad morphogenesis in Drosophila. [FBrf0167941] Moore et al., 2002, Science 297(5585): 1355--1358 hamlet, a binary genetic switch between single- and multiple- dendrite neuron morphology. [FBrf0152335] Stathakis et al., 1995, Genetics 141(2): 629--655 The genetic and molecular organization of the Dopa decarboxylase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0084402] Gay and Contamine, 1993, Mol. Gen. Genet. 239(3): 361--370 Study of the ref(2)P locus of Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0059083] Brittnacher and Ganetzky, 1983, Genetics 103: 659--673 On the components of Segregation Distortion in Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0039473]
FlyBase analysis	FlyBase, 2007, En masse symbol-based assigment of Aberration Class with respect to wild type. En masse symbol-based assigment of Aberration Class with respect to wild type. [FBrf0191808]
Book	Lindsley and Zimm, 1992, The Genome of Drosophila melanogaster. The Genome of Drosophila melanogaster. [FBrf0066905]