Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10490 Dear Maritta, We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 43rd (San Diego) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: 'Verstopft (vsp) which encodes a novel single-pass membrane protein is required for epithelial development in Drosophila.' You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, vsp. Do you know which of the Genome Project CG annotations your gene corresponds to? All the CGs have corresponding gene records in FlyBase already and we don't like to make duplicate records for what is actually the same gene unless we can't avoid it. If your gene does not correspond to a CG then perhaps you could tell me its map location, as this is valuable information for the genome annotation project. Thank you very much for your help, with best wishes, Rachel. \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D. FlyBase (Cambridge), \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10490 Dear Rachel, the gene we originally named verstopft (vsp) corresponds to CG14226. Just a few days after submission of our abstract for the 43rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference CG14226 was published as domeless by Brown et al. in Current Biology, 2001, 11 (21), 1700 \- 1705: Identification of the first invertebrate interleukin JAK/STAT receptor, the Drosophila gene domeless. If there are further questions please contact me, with best wishes, Maritta. \------------------------------- Dr. Maritta Feix University of Bonn Institute for Zoophysiology Dept. Developmental Biology Poppelsdorfer Schloss 53115 Bonn Germany
