Subject: Re: ADRC-120
>Dear Helen,
>
>We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming Bellevue
>(Seattle) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am
>writing in connection with your abstract:
>
>'The meiotic arrest gene always early (aly) encodes a nuclear protein
>that may regulate ras signalling in the Drosophila testis.'
>
>You mention two genes that are new to FlyBase, zaa and zab.
>
>Do you have map locations for zaa and zab? It is nice if we can keep
>as many gene records as possible anchored to the map.
>
>Thank you for your help,
>
>with best wishes,
>
>Rachel.
>
zaa and zab are zuker-aly-like a and b. I don't necessarily want to use
these as the final name for the genes.
zaa is at 65.5 +/- 3.3 on the second chromosome based on recombination
between cn and c. it is also uncovered by Df number 442 from the deficiency
kit ( I don't have the name to hand). This places it in 49C-50C.
zab is also on the second. I didn't calculate the position accurately by
recombination, but it is around 96, based on recomb between c and px. It
is uncovered by Df(2R)R1-8 and Df(2R)X58-7, but not X58-9. This places it
in 58A1-B2.
Hope this helps.
Helen
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Helen White-Cooper
Dept of Zoology
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PS