Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC.06-60204 Dear Yu, 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: Oocyte Maintenance Defects restricts Dpp responsive cells to the stem cell niche in the Drosophila germarium. You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, omd. 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 wishes, Rachel. Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC.06-60204 Dear Dr. Rachel Drysdale: oocyte maintenance defects (omd) corresponds to CG9591 in Drosophila Genome Project CG annotation. sincerely yours yu Cai, Ph.D Young Investigator 1, Research Link Temasek LifeSciences Laboratory National University of Singapore Singapore, 117604