Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC.06-60664
Dear Yossi,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 47th
(Houston) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
Glorund, the elusive ovarian repressor of nanos translation.
You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, glo.  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.
Unfortunately glo is not available as a symbol, since it was used for a
gene called gloin in a 2005 paper (Myat et al., 2005, Dev. Biol. 281(1):
38--52).  I can suggest 'glor' as an alternative \- no gene has yet been
given the symbol glor, so that would work.  Does that solution work for you?
With best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: FW: Helping FlyBase: ADRC.06-60664
Dear Rachel,
Thank you for your email
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Glorund CG number is CG6946
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Thanks again,
Yossi
Yossi Kalifa   Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
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Subject: glo abbreviation
Dear Rachel,
Yossi Kalifa in my lab passed along your email about using glo as an
abbreviation for our gene glorund (CG6946).   I just spoke with
Debbie Andrew, in whose lab the gloin mutation was identified and she
says that they are almost positive that gloin is a known gene \- they
had only identified it genetically, not molecularly.  They are
currently doing the complementation tests and sequencing gloin
alleles.  In that case, their alleles will become alleles of that
gene.  She feels that we should keep the glo abbreviation for glorund
at this time as they will most likely be changing their alleles to
reflect the previously identified gene.
Liz
Elizabeth R. Gavis
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Subject: Re: glo abbreviation
Hi Rachel,
Gloin as the gene symbol would be fine for now.  We'll let you know
when we publish with the likely pre-defined gene name.
Debbie