Can we beat your tric ? - Heilig, J.S. (1998)
Subject: Re: can we beat your tric ? Dear Michael, I remain extremely certain that tric is beat. This is based on indistinguishable Bolwig Organ defects in our tric allele and Corey's beat alleles. Our allele does not affect the motoneurons, however, so reciprocity is not maintained. UAS-beat directed to the Bolwig Organs or optic lobes rescues the BO phenotype of tric and beat mutants. Reduction of Fas II expression rescues the BO phenotype too, just as it does in the motoneurons. tric and beat alleles fail to complement when Bolwig Organ phenotype is assessed. So, by those criteria they look pretty much the same. We sequenced the coding region of beat from our tric allele and found no mutations. Corey's group did not sequence their beat alleles. So, by most people's standards I think tric=beat and we do conclude that tric and beat are the same in a MS that we have submitted. Regards, Joe