Paper report

How many genes does it take to make a fly?

Gilean McVean

  • Correspondence: Gilean McVean

Genome Biology 2000, 1:reports015 doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-1-reports015

Published: 17 March 2000

Abstract

The largest contiguous stretch of DNA yet sequenced in Drosophila suggests that fruit-flies have only half as many genes as Caenorhabditis elegans.