From owner-dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Jan 26 19:14:18 2001 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0C65C17BAE; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:14:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6020) id 28DE017BAC; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 6022117BAF; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:00:24 +0000 (GMT) To: bionet-drosophila@net.bio.net From: m.g.jarman@sussex.ac.uk (Michael Jarman) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: % poly-A RNA in total RNA Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET="US-ASCII" X-Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id 4834517BAB; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:00:21 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from rinka.central.susx.ac.uk (rinka.central.susx.ac.uk [139.184.14.19]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7324441658; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:00:08 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from rogerp2.biols.susx.ac.uk ([139.184.160.22]) by rinka.central.susx.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14MD9R-0006hh-00; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:59:09 +0000 X-To: dros@net.bio.net, dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk X-Mailer: Siren Mail for Macintosh 4.0.3 X-Sender: bape0@epunix.sussex.ac.uk Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hi, Could anyone tell me what percentage of the total RNA population is represented by poly-A RNA in Drosophila? Or where to find such information (it's not in the Grey Book). I don't need to know exactly - just whetherit is about 2% as in plants or closer to the 5% average for most mammalian species. Thanks Mike Jarman **************************************** Michael G. Jarman, Ph.D. School of Biological Sciences University of Sussex Falmer Brighton BN1 9QG U.K. Telephone: +44 1273 877247 Fax: +44 1273 678433 E-mail: m.g.jarman@sussex.ac.uk **************************************** --- .