Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10240
Dear Yun,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 44th
(Chicago) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
D-hillarin, a novel LIM-domain containing protein in the fly CNS.
You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, Hillarin. 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.
Also, if you have settled on a short symbol for your gene now would be
a good time to let me know what it is, as then I can enter it in the
database from the outset.
Thank you very much for your help,
with best wishes,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10240
Dear Rachel,
Yun Ji forwarded the e-mail below to me. D-Hillarin is the
Drosophila homolog to the leech Hillarin gene (accession \# AAK49949).
It is currently identified in FlyBase under the following CG numbers:
CG30147
CG10439
CG13435
We haven't chosen a short abbreviation yet but would propose either
D-hil (to emphasize it's a homolog of hillarin) or just plain hil.
Both of those options appear to be available, so we're willing to go
with whatever is preferred by FlyBase. (Note that hillarin is
localized to axon hillocks in leech, hence the name, but we don't yet
know whether that will be true for the drosophila homolog.)
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thanks in advance,
Kristen Johansen
Kristen M. Johansen, Ph.D.
Professor of Zoology and Genetics
3154 Molecular Biology Building
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011