Genomics : Three's company.(third eukaryote genome sequenced)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 25, 2000 | Copyright information

THIS week witnessed the formal publication in Science of the genome (the sequence of DNA "letters" in an organism's chromosomes) of a fruit fly called Drosophila melanogaster--or, at least, of the two-thirds of it, known as the euchromatin, that contains the actual genes. The completion of the Drosophila genome was announced in February at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science's publisher. However, the study's leaders, Craig Venter of Celera Genomics, a DNA- sequencing firm based in Maryland, and Gerry Rubin, of the University of California, ...

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