Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10124
Dear Kathrin,
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:
Ballchen is a novel Ser / Thr Kinase involved in germ cell development.
You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, ballchen. 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. The CG symbols become synonyms when an
annotation is named with a more descriptive or functional name.
Also, you mention an EP insertion \- is this one of the Gene Disruption
Project elements? If so we probably already have a record of that
insertion, so it would be good if you let me know its identifier number
and we can keep the insertion properly associated with the ballchen allele.
With best wishes,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Dear Rachel,
the corresponding CG number is 6386. The gene is named baellchen (with
an 'Umlaut'). The identifier number of the EP insertion that I
mentioned <up>'EP-Element insertion representing a hypomorphic mutation of
ballchen showed a male sterile phenotype with reduced testis'</up> is
EP863.
With best regards,
Kathrin
Kathrin Klinge