Subject: Re: FlyBase Help Mail - nomenclature
Dear Rachel:
I wrote you a few months ago about using the names blown fuse
and/or sour grapes as mutant names. We decided to go with blown fuse, blow
for short, to rename l(2)43Eb as isolated by Heitzler et al. The mutant
phenotype is that myoblasts fail during fusion to form myotubes. We've
cloned this gene, which appears to be totally novel.
Steve
Subject: Re: FlyBase Help Mail - nomenclature
>For everything to be perfect, it would be nice if you told me the allele
>that the mutant phenotype goes with. Is it the original l(2)43Eb1 or
>have you made another one?
Both l(2)43Eb1 and one other allele we've generated here in the lab.
We're calling them like so: l(2)43Eb1 = blow1
BB034 (our original name) = blow2
thanks
Steve