Asian Distribution Center for Segmentation Antibodies

National Institute of Genetics, Invertebrate Genetics Laboratory (Mishima, JAPAN)

(Photograph provided by the FlyEX database)

Segmentation Antibodies

John Reinitz has made a collection of antibodies against segmentation gene products available to the research community. We act as the distribution center for researchers residing in Asia. Researchers in other parts of the world should send their requests to the following local distributors:

North and South America	John Reinitz: reinitz [at] galton.uchicago.edu
Europe	Herbert Jackle: hjaeckl [at] gwdg.de
Oceania	Rob Saint: Saint [at] rsbs.anu.edu.au
India	K. VijayRaghavan: vijay [at] ncbs.res.in
Israel	Ze'ev Paroush: zparoush [at] cc.huji.ac.il

Exclusion of India and Israel from the region that they normally belong to is purely due to the difficulty encountered in sending antibodies to these countries. No political implication is intended.

How to receive samples of these antibodies.

1. Please send an e-mail to saitoknig.ac.jp, indicating the code, antigen, and the host animal of the antibody needed according to the table below. Do not forget to include your mailing address. Addresses in Japan should be written in Japanese, if possible.

2. Please type " segmentation Ab request" (case insensitive, do NOT spell out "Ab") in the Subject line. Your request will be acknowledged by an automatic reply e-mail. If you do not receive such an e-mail within 24 hours, please send your request by FAX (+81-559-81-6825). Although an automatic reply will also be made to requests from non-Asian countries, such requests will be ignored. Please contact your local distribution center, indicated above.

3. Please make sure that your request mail does not contain any non-standard characters, such as Hanguel or characteres with umlaut, accent etc. If you use such characters, my computer will not be able to encode it properly, and your request will likely be trashed with SPAMs. Please check not only the mail text, but also your sender information (the "From" box).

4. Requests from Japan will be sent on ice at recipient's cost. We will cover Fed Ex shipping costs to other countries within Asia. For international shipping, please notify us of any customs regulations for importing antibodies.

5. The following paper should be cited upon publication using these antibodies:

Kosman, D., Small, S. and Reinitz, J. (1988). Rapid production of a panel of polyclonal antibodies to Drosophila segmentation proteins. Development, Genes and Evolution 208, 290-294.