The well-studied segmentation cascade of Drosophila melanogaster represents a derived mechanism compared with that of other arthropods. The degree of conservation of genes that function in ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology’s most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers from Japan compiled a comprehensive dataset ...

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 ...