Subject: lie gene may be EcR
The gene lie (long island expressway) is defined by a single mutant
allele, the PZ insertion originally called ms(2)06410 (now called
lie06410). FlyBase lists several synonyms for lie, such as
ms(2)42A. When I BLAST the flanking insertion of ms(2)06410 (GenBank
AQ026415), it maps to an intron of the EcR gene. Therefore, unless
lie is a separate gene nested in an intron of EcR, it is likely that
lie = EcR. This assumes that the P-element insertion is responsible
for the sterile phenotype. I have not looked at the literature to
see whether this has been verified.
...Bob Levis
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Robert W. Levis, Ph.D.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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