Subject: highway
Dear Brian,
I am writing about the highway mutant that you obtained from Hugo Stocker
and Ernst Hafen. Where you have published with it you have referred to it
as an allel of Drop.
Hugo and Ernst have an abstract about it for the upcoming Washington DC
ADRC, where they refer to it as stghwy. Given the regulatory
interactions, simple complementation tests might not have simple
interpretations.
Do you have any molecular information concerning where the lesion maps
(with respect to stg, Dr or (preferably) both)? That might help. I have
asked Ernst the same question.
If there really is no way to settle it for the moment I will have to create
an allele of stg called stghwy for the database and cross reference it to
Drhwy until the situation resolves itself.
I look forward to hearing from you,
With best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: highway
Dear Rachel,
	Regarding your questions concerning the hwy mutant and Drop, things
are not completely clear at the moment. I agree that hwy is an allele of
stg, but genetically it is also is an allele of Drop, but I don't know if
hwy is also a double mutant, like the other Dr alleles. As I may have
described in some of my meeting abstracts, Drop mutants are always double
hits in two genes, one of which is stg and the other is distal to stg, and
I refer to it as Dr-distal.
Best regards,
Brian Mozer