One-hundred and five new potential Drosophila melanogaster genes revealed through STS analysis

Complementation analysis had suggested that the Drosophila melanogaster genome contains approximately 5000 genes, but it is now generally accepted that the actual number is several times as high. We report here an analysis of 1788 anonymous sequence tagged sites (STSs) from the European Drosophila G...

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Published in:Gene 1997-08, Vol.195 (2), p.187-193
Main Authors: Louis, Christos, Madueño, Encarna, Modolell, Juan, Omar, Mahmoud M, Papagiannakis, George, Saunders, Robert D.C, Savakis, Charalambos, Sidén-Kiamos, Inga, Spanos, Lefteris, Topalis, Pantelis, Zhang, Yong Qing, Ashburner, Michael, Benos, Panayotis, Bolshakov, Viatcheslav N, Deak, Peter, Glover, David M, Herrmann, Siegrun, Kafatos, Fotis C
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Language:English
Subjects:
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Contig analysis
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster - genetics
Gene families
Genes, Insect
Genome
Genome mapping
Molecular Sequence Data
Multigene Family
Orphan genes
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods
Sequence Tagged Sites
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Summary:Complementation analysis had suggested that the Drosophila melanogaster genome contains approximately 5000 genes, but it is now generally accepted that the actual number is several times as high. We report here an analysis of 1788 anonymous sequence tagged sites (STSs) from the European Drosophila Genome Project (EDGP), totalling 463 kb. The data reveal a substantial number of previously undescribed potential genes, amounting to 6.1% of the number of Drosophila genes already in the sequence databases.
ISSN:0378-1119
1879-0038
DOI:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00138-8