From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Fri Sep 16 23:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!daresbury!trane.uninett.no!sunic!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!newsserver.sfu.ca!darwin.mbb.sfu.ca!dbaillie From: dbaillie@darwin.mbb.sfu.ca (David L. Baillie) Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: Re: briggsae X elegans Date: 16 Sep 94 15:50:43 GMT Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <9409141558.ZM4909@eatworms.swmed.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: darwin.mbb.sfu.ca leon@EATWORMS.SWMED.EDU ("Leon Avery") writes: >Does anyone know what happens if you cross briggsae males with elegans >hermaphrodites or vice versa? Do they ignore each other? Do they >produce progeny? I would like to get briggsae mutants and do >complementation tests with elegans. >-- >Leon Avery (214) 648-2420 (office) >Department of Biochemistry -2768 (lab) >University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center -8856 (fax) >5323 Harry Hines Blvd leon@eatworms.swmed.edu >Dallas, TX 75235-9038 It just occured to me, does everyone use the same strain of C. briggsae? We (Snutch and I) made our Ch4 genomic library using the g16 strain, that was isolated by Andros Fodor back in the early 1980's. I think he got it from northern India. It is one of atleat two in the stock center. I guess it would be good if people indicated the source of the DNA, library etc when they publish the C. briggae sequence, or place in genbank or EMBL. It could turn out to be important later on. Our few C. briggsae mutants are also in the same g16 background. dave baillie IMBB, SFU, Burnaby, BC, Canada ps maybe we should also get together a list of C. briggsae libraries that are available, I think there are several judging by the genbank entries. .