On 19 Dec 2014, at Fri19 Dec 11:15 , Norbert Perrimon wrote: OK with me. Norbert ----- On 18 Dec 2014, at Thu18 Dec 19:20 , "Bergwitz, Clemens" wrote: Hi Steven, One possibility would be NaPi-III (PIT1 and PIT2 are the only human type III sodium phosphate co-transporters and the drosophila gene is likely derived from the common ancestor). Clemens ----- On 18 Dec 2014, at Thu18 Dec 14:44 , Steven Marygold wrote: Dear Clemens and Norbert, I'd like to give the CG42575 (FBgn0260795) gene in FlyBase a 'proper' symbol based on your 2012 PLoS ONE paper: Roles of Major Facilitator Superfamily Transporters in Phosphate Response in Drosophila. Therein, you refer to this gene as 'dPit'. For the FlyBase symbol, we'll drop the 'd' prefix (for 'drosophila') according to our standard nomenclature rules. That leaves us with 'Pit'. Unfortunately, this is a different gene in FlyBase already called 'pit' / 'pitchoune' ( http://flybase.org/reports/FBgn0266581.html ), so it would be unwise to use 'Pit' as the official symbol for CG42575 as this only differs in capitalization from 'pit', and the two genes would easily get confused by FlyBase users (and curators!) Can you suggest an alternative symbol to use in FlyBase for CG42575? Thanks for your time, Steven Marygold, Ph.D. FlyBase
