Subject: Re: abstract from 33rd ann Dros Res conference, 1992
Dear Dr Green,
I apologise for getting back to you at such a later date but curation
of the 33rd ADRC abstract book has brought me back to the original
abstract I queried you about and I have remembered a question I should
have asked the first time round.
Our policy, now, is never to curate the posters from which an abstract
is based. This is because the information from the poster is never
published as the poster itself, but as a subsequent publication which
will get curated by FlyBase and therefore be entered into the
database. Before this descision was made Prof. M. Ashburner made a
practice of recording gene names from each poster to which the abstract
could be referenced.
Consequently we now have your reference:
\*x FBrf0055320 == Green et al., 1992, A. Conf. Dros. Res. 33: 48
against a series of genes and alleles and I have no way of knowing by
which means they arrived there. These genes and alleles have very
little information except what was possibly stated on your poster. I
realise this was a while ago but have you published anymore information
about the following genes so they can be correctly referenced and be
more fully curated?
\*a fas
\*A fasG5
\*x FBrf0055320 == Green et al., 1992, A. Conf. Dros. Res. 33: 48
\*a old
\*e optic lobe defective
\*b 2-56
\*c 42E3--43C3
\*x FBrf0055320 == Green et al., 1992, A. Conf. Dros. Res. 33: 48
\*a shg
\*A shgG137
\*x FBrf0055320 == Green et al., 1992, A. Conf. Dros. Res. 33: 48
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Happy holidays
Eleanor Whitfield,
on behalf of FlyBase.
Your information concerning the enhancer trap was marvellous,
Thanks again.
Subject: Re: abstract from 33rd ann Dros Res conference, 1992
HAPPY NEW YEAR, ELEANOR!
I was celebrating my recent defense, and I have been on vacation, so I just
got your e-mail. Sorry about the delay.
Here is the scoop on the genes you asked me about.
optic lobe defective: we were calling the P-element tagged sine oculis locus
optic lobe defective, because we hadn't realized that the locus was actually
sine oculis, yet. In a later poster (34th, I think) the locus had been renamed
and called absent minded (ami)(this reflected a collaboration which had been
started and we took over the name the other group had for it). We changed
the locus name to sine oculis as soon as we figured it out.
fas: faint sausage. This gene is being cloned and sequenced in our lab and
a paper will be submitted probably by August of 1995. Subsequent queries should
be made to arne lekven .. since he is the one
who is cloning it. I believe he has published one other abstract, but no other
papers utilizing this mutant.
shg: shotgun. This gene is also being cloned and sequenced in our lab. There
has been one further Dros Conf poster, by Tepass, I think. Anyway, you should
make inquiries to Ulli Tepass .. since he is
the person who will eventually clone this gene.
Both fas and shg were isolated by Nusslein-Volhard,Weischaus, etc in THE BIG
F2 screen.
I am sorry I could not be more helpful on these two loci. Ulli and Arne will
probably be better able to fill you in.
Have a nice day,
Patti