Subject: E(zen)2 & E(zen)3
Dear Chip,
I'm trying to clean up some old, questionable FlyBase gene records.
FlyBase has the following gene records, for which the only reference is
your 1995 abstract.  For these gene, please answer the following
questions:
Is this a real gene or if we should "un-gene" it?  
Are you aware of this gene being published with a different symbol
since then?
(Chip:  My recollection is that E(zen)3 is Medea, but I need you to
confirm this in writing before this gene record is removed.  I don't
recall if E(zen)2 turned out to be Mad.)
Ignore the *a, *z, etc.  They are just database field tags.  I think
the data in each row are reasonably self-explanatory.
Thanks in advance for your help & best wishes,
Bill
\*a E(zen)2
\*z FBgn0013945
\*x FBrf0080529 == ew1981 == Hudson et al., 1995, A. Conf. Dros. Res. 36 Suppl.: 339A
\*p Dominant enhancer of zen.
\*A E(zen)21
\*z FBal0033657
\*o ethyl methanesulfonate
\*R induced in zen1 stock
\*a E(zen)3
\*z FBgn0013946
\*x FBrf0080529 == ew1981 == Hudson et al., 1995, A. Conf. Dros. Res. 36 Suppl.: 339A
\*c 100D1--100D4
\*c Left limit from in situ hybridisation (FBrf0080529)
\*c Right limit from in situ hybridisation (FBrf0080529)
\*p Dominant enhancer of zen.
\*c 100D (determined by in situ hybridisation)
\*A E(zen)31
\*z FBal0033658
\*o ethyl methanesulfonate
\*R induced in zen1 stock
Subject: Re: E(zen)2 & E(zen)3
Hi Bill,
Yes E(zen)3 is Medea, and E(zen)2 is Mad.  Therefore, please delete the
gene names.  After consultation with Laurel and Rick, we renamed our Medea
alleles numerically prior to publication; however, the one allele of Mad we
obtained we published as "ez" and did not give it a numerical allele name.
Chip