Subject: MOD paper Dear Chihiro, I am writing to you on behalf of Dr. Alain Vincent. Thank you for your watchfulness about our MOD paper. Please, find hereafter the current data about the following P insertions: (1) PL25 is inserted at position 126012 of GenBank AE003494. The nearby (and most likely affected) gene is CG18319/bendless. However, we also found in its immediate vicinity a short ORF encoding a putative mitochondrial protein that to date has not been annotated. (2) PL60#1 is inserted at position 77698 of AE003494. The nearby (and most likely affected) gene is Beadex. However, the P element is closed to the 3' region of CG15047. Is is also formally possible that the latter corresponds to an alternative 5'exon of Beadex. (3) PG80 and PG112 are inserted 234 pb apart (at positions 102458 and 102692 of AE003444, respectively) closed to the 3' end of both PIP82 and CG1521. Therefore, it was not possible for us to predict the affected gene. I hope these informations will answer to your questions. Best regards. Henri-Marc Dr. Henri-Marc Bourbon, phD Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 du C.N.R.S. Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III 118 Route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse France
