Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10142
Dear Elizabeth,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 45th
(Washington DC) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
Epigenetic Regulation by the aly-class Meiotic Arrest Genes
You mention gene symbols that are new to FlyBase, schumacher-levy and
hale-bopp. Do you know which of the Genome Project CG annotations your
genes correspond 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. The CG symbols become
synonyms when an annotation is named with a more descriptive or
functional name. Also, since the names for your genes are too long to
use as symbols now would would be a good time to tell me what short
symbols you would like to use so I can get them into the database from
the start.
With best wishes,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10142
Dear Rachel,
Thanks for your email. The CG numbers are CG7570 for hale-bopp which we
want to shorten to hale, and CG17736 for shumacher-levy, which we want to
shorten to schuy. We gave these names for these genes because in their testes
in-situs they gave a pattern on the elongating spermatids which looked liked
comet tails.
I hope this helps, Elizabeth