Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase
Hi Rachel. I'm probably not going to be much help on these stocks. All I
know is that they're from the Yamamoto et al., Mut Res. (1990) screen,
although they're not published in that paper.
Jeff
> There are two stocks that its possible you could help us out with.
> They are:
>
> BG stock number: 1153.6
> Stock: mus113RT3/C(1)DX, y* f1
> Chromosome 1
> Received from: J.B. Boyd
> Date received: 5/28/91
> Comments: May not be right
>
> BG stock number: 1153.7
> Stock: mus114RT1/C(1)DX, y1 f1
> Chromosome 1
> Received from: J.B. Boyd
> Date received: 5/28/91
>
> The reason I am writing to you, particularly, is your
> \*x FBrf0084352 == Sekelsky et al., 1995, Genetics 141(2): 619--627
> paper where you discuss 'mei-9RT1', and say that the work began in Boyd's
> lab. I know that there are several such RT1 alleles, but in any case
> you may be able to add something to the data we have for mus113 and
> mus114.
>
> The kinds of information I am looking for are:
> Do mus113 and mus114 correspond to genes known by any other means?
> Has anything been published about them that we might have missed?
> What is known about their map location?
> What mutagen generated the alleles?
> What is known about their mutant phenotype?
>
> with best wishes,
> Rachel.