From Duc Nguyen to Leyla Bayraktaroglu Jan 20, 2000 sidekick gene update: 1) EP(X)0369 insertion (accession # AQ025326) into exon 1 2) additional introns found by comparison of cDNA sequence and the new genomic sequence from BDGP (clone BACR19J1, accession number AL132792), which tally up a total of 14 exons instead of the 10 exons described in the Development paper (FBrf0098319). 3) The 24 bp mini exon sequence is as follows: 5' AAA AAG GAG AGC CGT CAT TTG TTT 3'