Subject: flp and chico (more than a bit late....)
Dear Rachel:
Sorry for answering so late, but I have not looked at my old email
account for some time. ... I think the text is OK, so it can be
archived..
Sincerely:
Juan R. Riesgo.
>Dear Juan,
>
>Ernst has been in touch about the flp and chico situation in FlyBase.
>I enclose my reply to him below so that you can see where we have got
>to. I am writing to you to ask whether I could archive your
>information about the complementation data to add to the information we
>have about the 'fs(2)4' mutation, because it is this that separates flp
>from chico. All you would need to do would be to say that I could
>archive the following text as a personal communication from you to
>FlyBase.
>
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>I do not think that chico (fs(2)4) is allelic to flp since it
>complements the flphd allele. fs(2)4 flies do not show unexpanded
>wings, are not dark or are male sterile. For these reasons we decided
>that the best would be to call it the neutral name fs(2)4, since it was
>not at all clear in my mind that the mutation was an allele of flp.
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>Of course feel free to modify the text as you wish, I only make this
>suggestion to give you the option of doing almost no extra work!
>
>With best wishes,
>
>Rachel.
>
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>Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
>
>FlyBase (Cambridge),
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