Heterochromatic sequences in a Drosophila whole-genome shotgun assembly

Roger A Hoskins^1,8 , Christopher D Smith^2,8, Joseph W Carlson¹, A Bernardo Carvalho³, Aaron Halpern⁴, Joshua S Kaminker², Cameron Kennedy⁵, Chris J Mungall⁶, Beth A Sullivan⁵, Granger G Sutton⁴, Jiro C Yasuhara⁷, Barbara T Wakimoto⁷, Eugene W Myers⁴, Susan E Celniker¹, Gerald M Rubin^1,2,6 and Gary H Karpen⁵

¹Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

²Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

³Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CEP 21944-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

⁴Celera Genomics, 45 West Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

⁵Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

⁶Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

⁷Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

⁸These authors contributed equally to this work