Subject: Curation of 36th Ann. Dros. Conf. abstract 39B
Dear Dr. Volk,
I am a curator of FlyBase at the Cambridge, England, site working with
Prof. M. Ashburner.
I shall be curating the abstracts from the 36th Ann. Dros. Res. Conf.
Your abstract, 39B, discusses a new gene groovin. In your abstract you
do not assign a symbol for this gene - have you decided upon a symbol
yet? Do you know the cytological or genetic location of the gene or
the function of the gene product?
As this is a new gene the information will be very useful to users of
FlyBase.
Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated and will be
curated as a personal communication.
Many thanks,
Eleanor Whitfield.
Subject: Re: Curation of 36th Ann. Dros. Conf. abstract 39B
Dear Dr Eleanor Whitfield,
In response to your request, here is some information concerning the
groovin ge ne:
1. The cytological location is 50C3/4.
2. The symbol is grv.
3. As to the function of groovin, there is not yet mutation, but our
antisense experiments suggest that it is important in a correct apodeme
function to induce appropriate muscle pattern. The protein was
mentioned in a 'Development' paper Development 120 59-70 (1994) Volk
and VijayRaghavan.
Sincerely yours, Talila Volk.