Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-50662
Dear Amin,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 46th
(San Diego) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
Control of tracheal terminal cell size and branching.
You mention gene symbols that are new to FlyBase, whacked, winded and
miracle-gro. 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, if you have settled on short symbols for your genes now would be
a good time to let me know what they are, as then I can enter them into the
database from the outset.
With best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-50662
Dear Rachel,
Thank you for contacting me. We now know that miracle-gro is
allelic to warts and that winded is allelic to cdsA. whacked disrupts
CG5344. The exelixis piggyBac 'allele,' e01976 is misannotated as
it inserts some 2kb 5' of whacked (and probably disrupts CG5342). We
have settled on wkd as the short symbol for whacked. Sorry about the
extra names (miracle-gro and winded) but as soon as mutations fall
into a complementation group it becomes much easier to talk about
them by a single descriptive name then by all the allele numbers.
Cheers,
Amin
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-50662
Dear Rachel,
In my last email I had said that the e01976 piggyBac is probably
not an allele off CG5344/whacked but may be an allele of CG5342. I
mistakenly said that the piggyBac insertion site was 2 kb 5' of
whacked. It is actually more like 200 bp. However, by
complementation e01976 is not allelic to whacked, and the insertion
site of e01976 seems to be in the CG5342 transcription unit (based on
the sequence of AT05577.3prime). Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Amin
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