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Nature Genetics 36, 288–292 (1 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/ng1312

Systematic generation of high-resolution deletion coverage of the Drosophila melanogaster genome

Annette L Parks , Kevin R Cook , Marcia Belvin , Nicholas A Dompe , Robert Fawcett , Kari Huppert , Lory R Tan , Christopher G Winter , Kevin P Bogart , Jennifer E Deal , Megan E Deal-Herr , Deanna Grant , Marie Marcinko , Wesley Y Miyazaki , Stephanie Robertson , Kenneth J Shaw , Mariano Tabios , Valentina Vysotskaia , Lora Zhao , Rachel S Andrade , Kyle A Edgar , Elizabeth Howie , Keith Killpack , Brett Milash , Amanda Norton , Doua Thao , Kellie Whittaker , Millicent A Winner , Lori Friedman , Jonathan Margolis , Matthew A Singer , Casey Kopczynski , Daniel Curtis , Thomas C Kaufman , Gregory D Plowman , Geoffrey Duyk & Helen L Francis-Lang

In fruit fly research, chromosomal deletions are indispensable tools for mapping mutations, characterizing alleles and identifying interacting loci. Most widely used deletions were generated by irradiation or chemical mutagenesis.