The transposable elements of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatin: a genomics perspective

Joshua S Kaminker^1,8, Casey M Bergman^8,2, Brent Kronmiller^2,7, Joseph Carlson², Robert Svirskas³, Sandeep Patel², Erwin Frise², David A Wheeler⁵, Suzanna E Lewis¹, Gerald M Rubin^1,2,4, Michael Ashburner⁶ and Susan E Celniker²

¹Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

²Drosophila Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

³Amersham Biosciences, 2100 East Elliot Rd, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA

⁴Howard Hughes Medical Institute

⁵Human Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA

⁶Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK

⁷Current address: Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

⁸These authors contributed equally to this work