Subject: FlyBase query: ARDC40 - 873B Dear Dr. Stowers, I am curating the addendum book to the 40th Annual Drosophila Research Conference which was just held in Seattle. In your abstract: 'Genetic screen using a novel genetic technique for generating eye clones identifies milton, an ERG on/off transient mutant.' you describe a gene that is new to FlyBase, 'milton'. Do you have a map location for milton? It is nice if we can keep as many gene records as possible anchored to the map. I look forward to hearing from you, Gillian \-------------------------------------------------------------- Gillian Millburn. FlyBase (Cambridge), \-------------------------------------------------------------- > Subject: Re: FlyBase query: ARDC40 - 873B Hello, Milton maps to the 27CD region of the genome. Moreover, the P-element alleles l(2)K06704 and l(2)K14514 are located at nearly the same position in the first intron of the milton gene. The only reservation I have about putting this info in Flybase is that after further phenotypic characterization and before publication we may decide to change the name of the gene to one that better describes what we think the gene is doing. I guess if that happens Flybase would just get updated at that point so that the gene name gets changed, so go ahead. Steve Steve Stowers Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Beckman Center, Room 117 Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA 94305
