Subject: Df(1)v-M13-E7
Df(1)v-M13-E7 was donated to the Bloomington Stock Center by Wouter Ferro
of the Department of Radiation Genetics and Chemical Mutagenesis of the
Leiden University Medical Center. Accompanying notes said that it was
generated in the Amherst M56i strain, isolated over the balancer M6 and
initially called l(1)vM13-E7 and Df(1)vM13-E7.
My polytene analysis showed the breakpoints 9D2-E1;9F2-10A1.
From the genetic background, balancer and the source of the stock, it's
likely that this deletion was isolated in the studies described in Eeken et
al., 1994, 'The nature of X-ray-induced mutations in mature sperm and
spermatogonial cells of Drosophila melanogaster' Mutation Research 307:
201-212 (FBrf0073021). If so, it probably corresponds to Df(1)v-Ee6
(FBab0026968), Df(1)v-Ee7 (FBab0026969), Df(1)v-Ee8 (FBab0026970),
Df(1)v-Ee9 (FBab0026971) or Df(1)v-Ee31 (FBab0026976), based on the
similarity of reported and observed breakpoints.
Df(1)v-M13-E7 fails to complement vOf.