Subject: Re: Is ripcord the same gene as XBB70 Group VIII ?
Dear Aubrey,
You are absolutely correct, ripcord and l(3)65Da should be the
same. I just checked the flybase records regarding l(3)65Da and it seems
like this is the information about ripcord that was in our paper
describing the original mutagenesis of the XBB70 region (before we named
the complementation group VIII ripcord). After Mike identified these three
complementation groups within XBB70, I started working on the ripcord
stuff and presented a poster at the fly meeting. And that is the source of
the ripcord info. So, these two should be merged to avoid redundancy.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Kaan
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Aubrey de Grey wrote:
>
> Dear Kaan,
>
> I have just come across some communication between you and my colleague
> Eleanor Whitfield from a few years ago, which gives some phenotypic
> information about ripcord mutants and says that rip is within XBB70.
> I see from Andersen et al., Genes & Dev.  9:123-137 , that there are
> only three known complementation groups in that deficiency, two of
> which have real names already (vvl, aka dfr, and ple). Elimination
> suggests that the third, ''Group VIII'', is ripcord. Is this so? If
> so I will merge our records for the two genes and ripcord will get
> some alleles at last! We currently list ''Group VIII'' as l(3)65Da.
>
> Cheers, Aubrey de Grey
> FlyBase
>
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