Thanks to all of you who responded to my survey request about
integrated transgenes.
Although the response wasn't huge, I think the numbers (below) thus
far indicate a significant bias of X-linked integration events, as
well as another smaller enrichment on LG V. The X-linked bias
probably reflects the discovery by Valerie Reinke and Stuart Kim that
there are few, if any, "germline intrinsic" genes on the X, which may
create a bias for non-deleterious (and therefore recoverable) events
on the X during meiosis. In any case, I'll continue to collect any
information that still comes in, so info on any UV or gamma lines out
there is still welcome!
And now, as they say in NPR-- let's do the numbers:
LG I: 5 lines
LG II: 6 lines
LG III: 3 lines
LG IV: 5 lines
LG V: 13 lines
LG X: 20 lines
Bill Kelly
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William G. Kelly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Biology Department
Emory University
1510 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, GA 30322
phone: office 404-727-6461
lab 404-727-4580
e-mail: bkelly at biology.emory.edu
fax: 404-727-2880
"A fisherman is an optimist, or he wouldn't be a fisherman"-- Herbert Hoover
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