Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-60355
Dear Mary Alice,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 48th
(Philadelphia) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
Recycling the genome: Umbrea, a telomere-associated protein in Drosophila, arose 
from a duplicated HP1 protein.
You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, Umbrea.  Do you know
which of the 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.
You write
Best regards,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-60355
Dear Rachel-
The gene I mention in my abstract, Umbrea, corresponds to CG15636 in Flybase.  
Thanks!
Mary Alice Hiatt 
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-60355
Dear Rachel,
I would like to add that Umbrea is the "goddess of shadows". This is a HP1 like
gene, and while HP1s have a chromo and a shadow domain, CG15636/Umbrea only has
a shadow, which is important for its new function. 
Hence the name. 
.
.
Best,
Harmit