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Comparison of dot chromosome sequences from D. melanogaster and D. virilis reveals an enrichment of DNA transposon sequences in heterochromatic domains

Elizabeth E Slawson1, Christopher D Shaffer1, Colin D Malone1, Wilson Leung1, Elmer Kellmann1, Rachel B Shevchek1, Carolyn A Craig1, Seth M Bloom2, James Bogenpohl2, James Dee2, Emiko TA Morimoto2, Jenny Myoung2, Andrew S Nett2, Fatih Ozsolak2, Mindy E Tittiger2, Andrea Zeug2, Mary-Lou Pardue3, Jeremy Buhler4, Elaine R Mardis5 and Sarah CR Elgin1*

Author Affiliations

1 Biology Department, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA

2 Member, Bio 4342 class, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA

3 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

4 Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA

5 Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63108, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R15 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-2-r15

Published: 20 February 2006

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Additional data file 1:

Maps of each fosmid from Drosophila virilis and the homologous regions from Drosophila melanogaster (if available) showing the genes and identified repetitive elements for dot chromosome sequences

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Additional data file 2:

Maps of each fosmid from D. virilis and the homologous regions from D. melanogaster (if available) showing the genes and identified repetitive elements for non-dot chromosome sequences

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Additional data file 3:

A fasta file pre-formatted for use with RepeatMasker containing the PILER-DF identified repeats from the D. virilis assembly dvirAra08, the D. yakuba DINE-1 element, and the PILER-TR identified novel repeats from D. melanogaster, which were added to RepBase 8.12 Drosophila TE library to generate the Superlibrary used to analyze repeats

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