Hi Gillian, <up>Re: Smith and Cronmiller, 2001, Development 128(23): 4705--4714</up> .. Another note on the information in this paper: We submitted sequences for each end of the springer element in GenBank accession files: AF418012, AF418013. Our deduced full springer sequence essentially matches that in GenBank file: AF364549, although the predicted ORF2 (pol) differs at the N terminus: 'FFRGKSLLPVIRRRVAGIDMKLLIDTGAAKNFIRPFKGLKGVRPVQSPFTIHSIHGVTTITKKCFVSIFNLKATF FLLPDLTSFDAIVGLDLLKQAGASLCLXSGKLKWGSGAEQIDFHTCPDVNFTKVDCSDAPPLIKXAFLKMLGNRKK AFADPNEALPYNTSVVATIRXVDEEPIYAKLYPYPMGAADFVNGEIQELLKNGIIQKSKSPYNNPIWVVDKKGTDD AGNKKMRLVLDFRKLNERTVPDRYPMPNISMILGNLGKAKYFTTLDLKSGYHQITLAERXREKTXFAVNGGKYEFR RLPFGLRNAASIFQRTIDDILREQIGKFCYVYVDDVIIFSEDENXHVKHVDWVLKSLYDANMRISAEKSRFFKKSV SFLGFIVTNNGAATDPEKVKAIKEFPEPKNVFEVRSFLGLASYYRCFIKDFASIARPISDILKGENGSVSRHRSRS IQVEFSEAQQRAFEKLRNILASEDVILRYPDYKKAFDLTTDASAYGIGAVLSQEGRPITMISRTLSDREVNYATNE RELLAIVWALAKLRHYLYAVKEINIFTDHQPLTFAVSESNPNAKIKRWKARIDESGARIFYKPGKNNLVADALSRQ QLNVVEEQEPESCAATIHSELSLTHTIESTDKPVNCFQNQIILEEARSHWKRTFILFGNKRRHSINFSCKQALLEE LANIIIPNGVNAFHCDLHTVALIQDDVVRQFPATKFWHCKNRVTDIFAMQERKEILTVEHNRAHRSAQENVKQVLS EYYFPKMTKLASEIAANCKTCAKAKYDRHPKKQELGETPVPTHVGEILHIDIFSTDKKYFLTCVDKFSKFAMVQPI LSRTIEDLKAPLLQLMNVFPKAKTIYCDNEPSLKSQTIVAMLENHFGVSISNAPPLHSVSNGQVERFHSTLIELAR CLKIDKGISDTVELVLLATARYNMSIHSVINKKPAEVMRADPDDPHTDVQEKIKNAQILTRKRENASRQNRVFQVG DKVLVKSNRRLGNKLTPLCEEKIIEADLGTTVLIKGRVVHKDNLK' Notes for the flybase daughterless entry, but unrelated to this paper: I. I've identified the transposon of the original da1 mutant allele. It is 'insertion element 1360.' .. Thanks, Claire