Subject: sticky alleles
D'Avino, Savoian and Glover (J Cell Biol 166, 61-71 2004) report that two
of the Szeged third-chromosome P insert lines are in fact hobo insertions
in sticky but they don't give the full information!  In fact, four of the
Szeged lines turn out to carry sti alleles (l(3)S045902, l(3)S044823,
l(3)S050115 and l(3)S050110), by mapping genetically to ca 69, by failing
to complement 69D deficiencies, and by failing to complement each other
and pre-existing sti alleles (all me).  I don't know which of these were
designated alleles 4 and 5 in the paper -- it doesn't seem to say.
Adelaide
Subject: FBrf0179178 and sticky alleles
Hi Paolo,
I'm looking at your paper
*x FBrf0179178 == D'Avino et al., 2004, J. Cell Biol. 166(1): 61--71
and see that there are two sticky alleles that are from the Deak screen
- sti4 and sti5.  The question is - which Deak insertions are
these?  We already have records for them with Deak-esque names, and do
not want to make additional alleles without the correspondences being
recognised.
best regards,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: FBrf0179178 and sticky alleles
Hi Rachel,
Thanks for your message.
sti4 is 448/23
sti5 is 459/2 or 501/15; even though  these are two different stocks, 
molecular analysis indicate that the insertion in sti is the same.
Plaese note that the mutations in sti are NOT caused by the P elements 
present in the original stocks but by hobo inserts that probably jumped 
along during the mutagenesis. We actually eliminated the P elements by 
recombination in our sti mutants.
Paolo