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

Joshua S Kaminker18, Casey M Bergman28, Brent Kronmiller27, Joseph Carlson2, Robert Svirskas3, Sandeep Patel2, Erwin Frise2, David A Wheeler5, Suzanna E Lewis1, Gerald M Rubin124, Michael Ashburner6* and Susan E Celniker2

Author Affiliations

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

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

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

4 Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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

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

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

8 These authors contributed equally to this work

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Genome Biology 2002, 3:research0084-0084.20 doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0084


This article is part of a series of refereed research articles from Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, FlyBase and colleagues, describing Release 3 of the Drosophila genome, which are freely available at http://genomebiology.com/drosophila/.

Published: 23 December 2002

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A table showing the classification of transposable elements in the genus Drosophila

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