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Fly meets shotgun: shotgun wins

Nature Genetics volume 24, pages 327–328 (2000)Cite this article

The sequencing group at Celera Genomics Corporation has cooperated with the European, Canadian and American genome projects to demonstrate that a genomic sequence as large as that of Drosophila melanogaster euchromatin (120 Mb) can be obtained by assembling the sequence of random (‘shotgun’) clones without the prerequisite for a clone-based physical map.

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Figure 1: Mosaic fly with one vestigial wing found by Calvin Bridges on 6 August 1923, and drawn by Edith M. Wallace.
Figure 2: In situ hybridization of a P1 clone with a site in a polytene salivary-gland chromosome.

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