Personal communication from Todd Laverty to Bloomington Stock Center
A Bloomington Stock Center user reported that Df(2L)s1402/CyO flies (stock
556) crossed to w flies produced red-eyed progeny and asked if a w[+]
transgene was in the stock.  The Df had been analyzed by Todd Laverty, so
he was contacted for information.
Todd Laverty's response on July 27, 1998 to my query was:
"Df(2L)s1402 was/is part of the Scott lethal P collection and has a P
insert at 30B9-10 [originally we called it l(2)s1402].  In mapping the P, I
noticed an associated Df in the stock [thus the name change?].   Since the
Scott collection is marked with P{w[+]} what [the user] wrote makes perfect
sense."
Consequently, an insertion entry should be created for P{w[+mC]=lacW}s1402
and the Bloomington stock 556 should be denoted Df(2L)s1402,
P{w[+mC]=lacW}s1402/CyO if the P{w[+mC]=lacW}s1402 notation is consistent
with FlyBase standards.
Kevin Cook
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
July 29, 1998