Subject: Helping FlyBase: EDRC-C21
Dear Harald,
We are (belatedly) curating the abstracts for the 18th (Gottingen)
European Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in
connection with your abstract:
'Z4 and Chriz: two novel proteins essentially involved in the structuring of the
interphase chromosomes'.
You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, Z4. Do you know which of
the Genome Project CG annotations Z4 corresponds to? Is Z4 the same as
br? 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.
With best regards,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: EDRC-C21
Dear Rachel,
the gene we named Z4 is identical to gene CG7752 annotated by the
genome project. This and the isolation of Chriz = CG10712 has
recently been published in J Cell Sci 117, 4253. Concerning Chriz
there is a confusion as this gene is also called Chromator, though
a reference describing its isolation has been missing (an abstract
as a reference is not acceptable). This should also be updated in
Flybase.
Best regards
Harald
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Dr. Harald Eggert
Humboldt Universitaet
Institut fuer Biologie
Abteilung Cytogenetik
Chausseestrasse 117
10115 Berlin
Germany