>Subject: EDRC99 - abstract ID123
>
>Dear Dr. Loppin,
>
>We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming European
>Drosophila Research Conference in Zurich, for FlyBase. I am writing in
>connection with your abstract:
>
>'sesame, a maternal effect mutation affecting male pronucleus maturation
>in Drosophila melanogaster'
>
>You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, ssm.
>
>From your abstract it looks as though you are talking about a single
>allele, is this the case ? Do you have an allele designation for the
>ssm mutant, like ssm1? If so then we can store the information about
>it much more precisely.
>
Dear Chihiro,
We have at the moment a single EMS allele of the sesame (ssm) gene which is
not cloned. I propose you to call it ssm185b for it was first isolated as
fs(1)185b (Tatout et al., Int. J. Dev. Biol. 38: 27-33 (1994)).
Best regards,
Benjamin Loppin.