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SUBMITTER: Smith CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2819280 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20070601 5831
The repetitive DNA that constitutes most of the heterochromatic regions of metazoan genomes has hindered the comprehensive analysis of gene content and other functions. We have generated a detailed computational and manual annotation of 24 megabases of heterochromatic sequence in the Release 5 Drosophila melanogaster genome sequence. The heterochromatin contains a minimum of 230 to 254 protein-coding genes, which are conserved in other Drosophilids and more diverged species, as well as 32 pseudo ...[more]