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Fruits and flies: a genomics perspective of an invertebrate model organism.
Briefings in functional genomics & proteomics - 1 Nov 2004
Burdett Howard, van den Heuvel Marcel
Abstract excerpt
The increasing number of species for which a full genome sequence is available offers rich pickings for geneticists, but comparative analysis and assembly of information gathered across species does not always lead to answers about the function of a particular gene. This paper aims to place the invertebrate model system--the fly Drosophila melanogaster--into this playing field and to discuss how the organism...
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