Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-338A Dear Ruth, We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 41st (Pittsburgh) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: 'Characterizing a gene involved in gonadogenesis.' You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, but do not name it. Does it correspond to one of the CK ESTs? Do you have a map location for your gene? This is a data class we like to track. Thank you for your help, with best wishes, Rachel. Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-338A and 85 Hi, there are a number of abstract from my lab, so I am not quite sure which one this is. One gene that should be entered into flybase is wunen-2 . The other gene may be in a report by Lilach Gilboa, is a transcript specifically expressed in gonadal mesoderm during all stage of development. This gene was identified from a Kopczynski/ Goodman CDNA library (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Aug 18;95(17):9973-8.). The clone is called ck00048. The gene has no homology to any other gene in the fly or nay other data base. We do not have mutants yet. If you need more info, we are glad to provide it to you, best regards ruth lehmann. Dr. Ruth Lehmann HHMI and Skirball Institute Developmental Genetics Program (4th floor) New York University Medical School 540 First Ave New York, NY 10016
