Subject: Helping FlyBase: EDRC-GG6
Dear Helen,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the 19th (Eger)
European Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
Gene expression in Drosophila testes.
You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, tomb. 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.
With best regards,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: EDRC-GG6
It is CG14016. We called it tombola (tomb) because each homozygous
mutant testis looks like a tube full of balls.
Helen
PS, I noticed that the gene symbol zab never got incorporated as a
synonym of comr. zab had been our working name for this mutant, and
was mentioned in abstracts, but we renamed it comr when we published.
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Helen White-Cooper
Dept of Zoology
University of Oxford
South Parks Road