Gene or accession: CG17263 Gene annotation error Gene CG17263 corresponds to FBgn0005612 Comments: Alignment of CG17263 to Sox14 protein sequence demonstrates these are the same genes (Celera failed to define C terminus of Sox14 due to missed splice sites). Q=Sox14, 530 aa long, protein sequence from FB annotated ref sequence page (http://fly.ebi.ac. uk:7081 /.data/maps/sean/gifs/FBgn0005612.html#hit4) T=TrEMBL entry Q9W1E3 corresponding to CG17263 PROTEIN. Q 1 MIAKPNQATTEPPLSLRPGTVPTVPATTPARPATITIQRRHPAPKADSTPHTLPPFSPSP T 1 MIAKPNQATTEPPLSLRPGTVPTVPATTPARPATITIQRRHPAPKADSTPHTLPPFSPSP Q 61 SPASSPSPAPAQTPGAQKTQSQAAITHPAAVASPSAPV T 61 SPASSPSPAPAQTPGAQKTQSQAAITHPAAVASPSAPL thanks