Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-499C
Dear Alex,
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:
'A mutation affecting the migration of larval oenocytes.'
You write about don, but don't give us a map location - if you could
that would be nice, as we like to keep things anchored to the map. (We
ask this map data question to all discoverers of map-position-less new
genes). Also, we can do a lot more with the data about the mutant if
you give us a symbol for the mutant. Is it perhaps a BDGP/Szeged line
and if not is it a PZ/PlacW or what insertion?
Thank you for your help,
with best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-499C
Dear Rachel,
Phil Elstob (first author of the ADRC 2000 abstract) in the lab has shown
that the original down-and-out (don) allele is infact a P{A92} insertion
into svp and fails to complement svpe22 and svpH162. This insertion was
originally recovered many years ago as the S10 line from an enhancer trap
screen carried out by myself in collaboration with Rob White and John
Merriam (unpublished but described in my PhD thesis). We would like to call
our svp allele svpdon1 with svpS10 as a synonym.
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Best wishes, Alex Gould