Nucleic Acids Research, 2005, Vol. 33, Database issue D390-D395
© 2005, the authors
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 33, Database issue © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved
FlyBase: genes and gene models
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK and 1 The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1223 333963; Fax: +44 1223 333992; Email: rd120{at}gen.cam.ac.uk
The FlyBase Consortium: W. Gelbart, K. Campbell, M. Crosby, D. Emmert, B. Matthews, S. Russo, A. Schroeder, F. Smutniak, P. Zhang, P. Zhou and M. Zytkovicz (Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA); M. Ashburner, R. Drysdale, A. de Grey, R. Foulger, G. Millburn, D. Sutherland and C. Yamada (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK); T. Kaufman, K. Matthews, A. DeAngelo, R. K. Cook, D. Gilbert, J. Goodman, G. Grumbling, H. Sheth and V. Strelets (Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA); G. Rubin, M. Gibson, N. Harris, S. Lewis, S. Misra and S. Q. Shu (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, CA, USA)
Received September 15, 2004; Revised and Accepted September 28, 2004
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FlyBase (http://flybase.org) is the primary repository of genetic and molecular data of the insect family Drosophilidae. For the most extensively studied species, Drosophila melanogaster, a wide range of data are presented in integrated formats. Data types include mutant phenotypes, molecular characterization of mutant alleles and aberrations, cytological maps, wild-type expression patterns, anatomical images, transgenic constructs and insertions, sequence-level gene models and molecular classification of gene product functions. There is a growing body of data for other Drosophila species; this is expected to increase dramatically over the next year, with the completion of draft-quality genomic sequences of an additional 11 Drosphila species.
| SCOPE OF FLYBASE |
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FlyBase includes information about the structure and function of genes and gene products of the Drosophila genome (1). Although the primary species represented is that workhorse of classic genetics, Drosophila melanogaster, the database currently includes records for genes of more than 400 other Drosophila species, and will house genomic information for the 11 additional species included in the Drosophila comparative genomics sequencing effort. Phenotypic and genetic interaction information about mutants, and wild-type gene and enhancer-trap expression patterns are linked to strains in the Drosophila Stock Centers, from which extensive collections of mutant and wild-type strains are available. Mutant phenotypes (2) and gene expression patterns are described using controlled vocabularies, including anatomical terms linked to illustrations in the Anatomy section of FlyBase. Data concerning chromosome aberrations, natural transposons, genetically engineered constructs and transgene insertions are presented with hyperlinks to affected genes and resulting mutant alleles.
An overview of the classes of data found in FlyBase may be seen on the homepage (http://flybase.org; for further description see Supplementary Figure 1). Features recently added to FlyBase include an External Database Links section in Gene reports, expanded Batch query options and an extensive Drosophila Resources compilation (http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/allied-data/resources.html), which provides a comprehensive list of links to both network resources (e.g. sequence analysis tools) and material resources (e.g. clone and microarray suppliers) external to the FlyBase project.
Data are compiled by curators and annotators from sources including the scientific literature, large-scale genome sequencing projects and online resources such as the GenBank (NCBI)/EMBL/DDBJ nucleotide sequence databases and the UniProt (3) protein database. FlyBase curators work with curators of other databases, such as the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium (4) to ensure consistency of annotation across databases. The D.melanogaster genome annotation, Release 4.0 at the time of writing (57), has been enhanced by hand curation of all gene models (8,9), including integration of error reports submitted by the user community.
Table 1 shows a snapshot of FlyBase content as of September 2004. The remainder of this paper will focus on genes and gene models in FlyBase.
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| THE GENE REPORT |
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FlyBase provides several formats of gene report which differ by degree of completeness of data reported within the initial web page, the default being the Synopsis format. The Synopsis report for the maleless (mle) gene is shown in Figure 1. The Synopsis report displays commonly accessed gene information fields, an Available reports side panel to allow easy access to other report formats, and a text Summary generated automatically from the underlying data. The Abridged report format displays a wider range of information in the initial display than the Synopsis format, but collapses many of the details, such as individual Allele reports, into links in tables. The Full report format is the most comprehensive initial display.
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FlyBase also offers Subsection reports selected by data type, for example, alleles of that gene, references that discuss the gene and sequences in the DNA and protein data banks that correspond to the gene. Links to these and other subreports are listed in the Subsections panel of the Synopsis report. Recent additions include the Gene Ontology subreport, the Genetic Interactions subreport and the Constructs & Insertions subreport.
Gene reports now include an External Database Links section (http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/allied-data/extdb/ExternalLinks.htm). This section houses links to databases external to FlyBase, to ease access to information about the gene that falls outside the scope of FlyBase data curation. The databases currently listed in this section include; the BDGP In Situ Gene Expression Database (10), Drosophila melanogaster Exon Database (http://proline.bic.nus.edu.sg/dedb), PANTHER Protein Classification (11,12), Fly GRID Interaction Data (13), Hybrigenics PIMRider interactions (14), Interactive Fly (15), Yale Developmental Gene Expression (16) and NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (17). Not all genes have an entry in all these databases. The number of external links in place via this facility exceeds 76 500.
| THE GENE ANNOTATION REPORT |
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Detailed information about the annotated transcripts and other sequence-level data for a particular gene are to be found in the Annotation Report. This may be accessed from the Gene Report page from the link Genome Annotation or by a direct query using the Gene Annotations option in the homepage search box. The Annotation Query Form (http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/annot/fbannquery.hform) allows queries based on location, gene class, peptide length, mapped expressed sequenced tags (ESTs) or cDNAs, GO terms, or terms within annotation comments.
An example of an Annotation Report is shown in Figure 2. Notable features include a graphic representation of the transcript structures aligned with supporting evidence, information about each transcript and protein product, links to sequence data and information about other data mapped experimentally to the genomic sequence, such as point mutations, aberration breakpoints, rescue fragments and experimentally defined regulatory regions. Accompanying comments describe any unusual characteristics of the gene model, such as atypical splice donor or acceptor, non-AUG translation start, or dicistronic transcript. At the top of the report is a link to the peptide analysis that includes a graphic display of homologous proteins and known InterPro (3) protein motifs.
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| GENE REGION MAPS: GBROWSE AND APOLLO |
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A molecular map of the region surrounding a gene may be accessed through the Gene Region Map (GBrowse) link on either the Gene Report page or the Gene Annotation Report. GBrowse (18) is a configurable genome viewer that allows the presentation of both molecularly mapped and cytologically mapped data (http://www.gmod.org/ggb/gbrowse.shtml; see Supplementary Figure 2). Annotations or larger genomic regions may also be viewed using the interactive viewing and editing tool, Apollo (19). Apollo is available for Windows, MacOSX or Unix systems and may be downloaded from the Apollo site (http://www.fruitfly.org/annot/apollo).
| BULK DATA DOWNLOADS |
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FlyBase offers a variety of routes for bulk data retrieval; a recent addition is the Batch Download Reports by ID facility shown in Figure 3. This tool allows the user to query the genes dataset for many records at once, by valid symbol or by FlyBase identification number. The users can select the output type they wish to retrieve (HTML/Text, Spreadsheet or Database format). For HTML/Text outputs, the user can choose Report Content (from Synopsis, Abridged, Full, Summary, Alleles, Sequences, Reviews, References). For HTML/Text or Spreadsheet outputs, it is possible to filter output by field, using the Select fields function. A related tool, Batch Download Sequences by ID, allows querying for sequences for many genes simultaneously. Options for sequence retrieved are Gene Region, Transcript, Translation, 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) and 5'-UTR. Both Batch Download forms can be accessed from the Genes data directory or from the Genome Annotation and Sequences page.
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In addition to bulk queries performed over the web interface, FlyBase data files are available for download by ftp from several of our mirror sites, in a text, acode or XML format. Protocols are described in the FlyBase Reference Manual section D (http://flybase.org/docs/lk/refman/refman-D.html).
| D.MELANOGASTER GENOME RELEASES |
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The genomic sequence of D.melanogaster continues to be refined and expanded (http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/annot/release3.html); the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project has made public Release 4.0 of the genome sequence (http://www.fruitfly.org/annot/release4.html), and is currently finishing Release 5.0. FlyBase makes regular corrections and additions to the gene model annotations based on new data submissions to the sequence databases, user error reports and literature curation. We anticipate that comparative genomic analyses will play an increasing role in annotation assessment and improvement. Annotation updates are indicated by decimal numbers appended to the release number: e.g. Release 4.0 and Release 4.1. The heterochromatic portion of the genome is being analyzed by members of the Drosophila Heterochromatin Genome Project (http://www.dhgp.org); the heterochromatin annotations are accessible through FlyBase.
| ADDITIONAL DROSOPHILA GENOMES |
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has recognized the importance of comparative genomic analysis for the annotation of D.melanogaster and for understanding how genomes evolved. Towards this end, the major NHGRI-funded sequencing centers are sequencing 11 additional species of Drosophila (pseudoobscura, yakuba, simulans, virilis, ananassae, erecta, willistoni, grimshawi, mojavensis, persimilis and sechellia; status of projects reported at http://genome.gov/page.cfm?pageID=10002154). The genome sequences, annotations, syntenic relationships and other data from these genome projects will be incorporated into FlyBase, consistent with FlyBase's long-term commitment to maintaining genomic and genetic data on the family Drosophilidae.
| THE CHADO DATABASE SCHEMA |
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FlyBase has been operating since 1992 and is now in the process of developing and populating a new database structure, an integrated implementation of the chado generic genome database schema (http://www.gmod.org/schema/). The initial design of the chado schema was undertaken by FlyBase developers at Harvard and Berkeley to fully integrate the finished D.melanogaster genome sequence and annotation with the vast body of Drosophila genetic and phenotypic data produced over the last 100 years. The chado schema is an open software project and is being developed in cooperation with the GMOD initiative (http://www.gmod.org).
| REFERENCING FLYBASE |
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We suggest FlyBase be referenced in publications by citing this publication and the FlyBase web address (http://flybase.org).
| NOTE ADDED IN PROOF |
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The initial analysis of the genome sequence of a second Drosophila species, D.pseudoobscura [Richards,S. et al. (2004) Genome Res., in press] can now be accessed at GenBank and Flybase (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=40362459 and http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/gbrowse_fb/dpse, respectively). It includes 12 197 gene annotations of D.pseudoobscura and their inferred orthology/synteny relationships with their D.melanogaster counterparts.
| SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL |
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Supplementary Material is available at NAR Online.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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FlyBase is supported by grant P41 HG00739 from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, with additional support from the Medical Research Council (London).
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S. Polaski, L. Whitney, B. W. Barker, and B. Stronach Genetic Analysis of Slipper/Mixed Lineage Kinase Reveals Requirements in Multiple Jun-N-Terminal Kinase-Dependent Morphogenetic Events During Drosophila Development Genetics, October 1, 2006; 174(2): 719 - 733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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H. Liu, Z.-Z. Hu, M. Torii, C. Wu, and C. Friedman Quantitative Assessment of Dictionary-based Protein Named Entity Tagging J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc., September 1, 2006; 13(5): 497 - 507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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F. Cattaneo, M. E. Pasini, J. Intra, M. Matsumoto, F. Briani, M. Hoshi, and M. E. Perotti Identification and expression analysis of Drosophila melanogaster genes encoding {beta}-hexosaminidases of the sperm plasma membrane Glycobiology, September 1, 2006; 16(9): 786 - 800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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W.-Y. Ko, S. Piao, and H. Akashi Strong Regional Heterogeneity in Base Composition Evolution on the Drosophila X Chromosome Genetics, September 1, 2006; 174(1): 349 - 362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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K. W. Jordan, T. J. Morgan, and T. F. C. Mackay Quantitative Trait Loci for Locomotor Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Genetics, September 1, 2006; 174(1): 271 - 284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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M. E. Gelsthorpe, Z. Tan, A. Phillips, J. C. Eissenberg, A. Miller, J. Wallace, and S. I. Tsubota Regulation of the Drosophila melanogaster Protein, Enhancer of Rudimentary, by Casein Kinase II Genetics, September 1, 2006; 174(1): 265 - 270. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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T. S. V. Liao, G. B. Call, P. Guptan, A. Cespedes, J. Marshall, K. Yackle, E. Owusu-Ansah, S. Mandal, Q. A. Fang, G. L. Goodstein, et al. An Efficient Genetic Screen in Drosophila to Identify Nuclear-Encoded Genes With Mitochondrial Function Genetics, September 1, 2006; 174(1): 525 - 533. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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R. T. Cox and A. C. Spradling Milton controls the early acquisition of mitochondria by Drosophila oocytes Development, September 1, 2006; 133(17): 3371 - 3377. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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W. Haerty and R. S. Singh Gene Regulation Divergence Is a Major Contributor to the Evolution of Dobzhansky-Muller Incompatibilities between Species of Drosophila Mol. Biol. Evol., September 1, 2006; 23(9): 1707 - 1714. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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D. S. Hekmat-Scafe, M. Y. Lundy, R. Ranga, and M. A. Tanouye Mutations in the K+/Cl- Cotransporter Gene kazachoc (kcc) Increase Seizure Susceptibility in Drosophila. J. Neurosci., August 30, 2006; 26(35): 8943 - 8954. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. Dorner, L. Lum, M. Kim, R. Paro, P. A. Beachy, and R. Green A genomewide screen for components of the RNAi pathway in Drosophila cultured cells PNAS, August 8, 2006; 103(32): 11880 - 11885. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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D. M. Johnson-Schlitz and W. R. Engels The Effect of Gap Length on Double-Strand Break Repair in Drosophila Genetics, August 1, 2006; 173(4): 2033 - 2038. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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Y. Zhang, X. S. Liu, Q.-R. Liu, and L. Wei Genome-wide in silico identification and analysis of cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in ten species Nucleic Acids Res., July 18, 2006; 34(12): 3465 - 3475. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. Hollien and J. S. Weissman Decay of endoplasmic reticulum-localized mRNAs during the unfolded protein response. Science, July 7, 2006; 313(5783): 104 - 107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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P. J. Neuburger, K. J. Saville, J. Zeng, K.-A. Smyth, and J. M. Belote A Genetic Suppressor of Two Dominant Temperature-Sensitive Lethal Proteasome Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster Is Itself a Mutated Proteasome Subunit Gene Genetics, July 1, 2006; 173(3): 1377 - 1387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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Y. Mao, C. Rauskolb, E. Cho, W.-L. Hu, H. Hayter, G. Minihan, F. N. Katz, and K. D. Irvine Dachs: an unconventional myosin that functions downstream of Fat to regulate growth, affinity and gene expression in Drosophila Development, July 1, 2006; 133(13): 2539 - 2551. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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M. Beller, D. Riedel, L. Jansch, G. Dieterich, J. Wehland, H. Jackle, and R. P. Kuhnlein Characterization of the Drosophila Lipid Droplet Subproteome Mol. Cell. Proteomics, June 1, 2006; 5(6): 1082 - 1094. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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M. Sarkar, P. A. Leventis, C. I. Silvescu, V. N. Reinhold, H. Schachter, and G. L. Boulianne Null Mutations in Drosophila N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase I Produce Defects in Locomotion and a Reduced Life Span J. Biol. Chem., May 5, 2006; 281(18): 12776 - 12785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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A. J. Moehring, A. Llopart, S. Elwyn, J. A. Coyne, and T. F. C. Mackay The Genetic Basis of Postzygotic Reproductive Isolation Between Drosophila santomea and D. yakuba Due to Hybrid Male Sterility Genetics, May 1, 2006; 173(1): 225 - 233. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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U. Acharya, M. B. Edwards, R. A. Jorquera, H. Silva, K. Nagashima, P. Labarca, and J. K. Acharya Drosophila melanogaster Scramblases modulate synaptic transmission. J. Cell Biol., April 10, 2006; 173(1): 69 - 82. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. G. Gindhart Towards an understanding of kinesin-1 dependent transport pathways through the study of protein-protein interactions Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic, March 1, 2006; 5(1): 74 - 86. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. Bandyopadhyay, R. Sharan, and T. Ideker Systematic identification of functional orthologs based on protein network comparison Genome Res., March 1, 2006; 16(3): 428 - 435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. M. Rawls Jr. Analysis of Pyrimidine Catabolism in Drosophila melanogaster Using Epistatic Interactions With Mutations of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and {beta}-Alanine Metabolism Genetics, March 1, 2006; 172(3): 1665 - 1674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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T. Mukherjee, U. Schafer, and M. P. Zeidler Identification of Drosophila Genes Modulating Janus Kinase/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription Signal Transduction Genetics, March 1, 2006; 172(3): 1683 - 1697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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H. Akashi, W.-Y. Ko, S. Piao, A. John, P. Goel, C.-F. Lin, and A. P. Vitins Molecular Evolution in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup: Frequent Parameter Fluctuations on the Timescale of Molecular Divergence Genetics, March 1, 2006; 172(3): 1711 - 1726. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S.-Y. Jiang and S. Ramachandran Comparative and evolutionary analysis of genes encoding small GTPases and their activating proteins in eukaryotic genomes Physiol Genomics, February 23, 2006; 24(3): 235 - 251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. M. Gallo, L. Li, Z. Hu, and M. S. Halfon REDfly: a Regulatory Element Database for Drosophila Bioinformatics, February 1, 2006; 22(3): 381 - 383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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C. R. Preston, C. C. Flores, and W. R. Engels Differential Usage of Alternative Pathways of Double-Strand Break Repair in Drosophila Genetics, February 1, 2006; 172(2): 1055 - 1068. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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T. Tran, P. Havlak, and J. Miller MicroRNA enrichment among short 'ultraconserved' sequences in insects. Nucleic Acids Res., January 1, 2006; 34(9): e65 - e65. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. K. Kummerfeld and S. A. Teichmann DBD: a transcription factor prediction database Nucleic Acids Res., January 1, 2006; 34(suppl_1): D74 - D81. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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D. Sims, B. Bursteinas, Q. Gao, M. Zvelebil, and B. Baum FLIGHT: database and tools for the integration and cross-correlation of large-scale RNAi phenotypic datasets Nucleic Acids Res., January 1, 2006; 34(suppl_1): D479 - D483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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G. Grumbling, V. Strelets, and The FlyBase Consortium FlyBase: anatomical data, images and queries Nucleic Acids Res., January 1, 2006; 34(suppl_1): D484 - D488. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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C. Stark, B.-J. Breitkreutz, T. Reguly, L. Boucher, A. Breitkreutz, and M. Tyers BioGRID: a general repository for interaction datasets Nucleic Acids Res., January 1, 2006; 34(suppl_1): D535 - D539. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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D. Lyalin, K. Koles, S. D. Roosendaal, E. Repnikova, L. Van Wechel, and V. M. Panin The twisted Gene Encodes Drosophila Protein O-Mannosyltransferase 2 and Genetically Interacts With the rotated abdomen Gene Encoding Drosophila Protein O-Mannosyltransferase 1 Genetics, January 1, 2006; 172(1): 343 - 353. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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E. N. Andreyeva, E. S. Belyaeva, V. F. Semeshin, G. V. Pokholkova, and I. F. Zhimulev Three distinct chromatin domains in telomere ends of polytene chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster Tel mutants J. Cell Sci., December 1, 2005; 118(23): 5465 - 5477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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A. N. Krasnov, M. M. Kurshakova, V. E. Ramensky, P. V. Mardanov, E. N. Nabirochkina, and S. G. Georgieva A retrocopy of a gene can functionally displace the source gene in evolution Nucleic Acids Res., November 27, 2005; 33(20): 6654 - 6661. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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C. F. Cullen, A. L. Brittle, T. Ito, and H. Ohkura The conserved kinase NHK-1 is essential for mitotic progression and unifying acentrosomal meiotic spindles in Drosophila melanogaster J. Cell Biol., November 21, 2005; 171(4): 593 - 602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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N. T. Takaesu, E. Herbig, D. Zhitomersky, M. B. O'Connor, and S. J. Newfeld DNA-binding domain mutations in SMAD genes yield dominant-negative proteins or a neomorphic protein that can activate WG target genes in Drosophila Development, November 1, 2005; 132(21): 4883 - 4894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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D. Dorsett, J. C. Eissenberg, Z. Misulovin, A. Martens, B. Redding, and K. McKim Effects of sister chromatid cohesion proteins on cut gene expression during wing development in Drosophila Development, November 1, 2005; 132(21): 4743 - 4753. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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P. D. Karp, C. A. Ouzounis, C. Moore-Kochlacs, L. Goldovsky, P. Kaipa, D. Ahren, S. Tsoka, N. Darzentas, V. Kunin, and N. Lopez-Bigas Expansion of the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases to 160 genomes Nucleic Acids Res., October 24, 2005; 33(19): 6083 - 6089. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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F. Li, D. A. D. Parry, and M. J. Scott The Amino-Terminal Region of Drosophila MSL1 Contains Basic, Glycine-Rich, and Leucine Zipper-Like Motifs That Promote X Chromosome Binding, Self-Association, and MSL2 Binding, Respectively Mol. Cell. Biol., October 15, 2005; 25(20): 8913 - 8924. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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M. R. Bogwitz, H. Chung, L. Magoc, S. Rigby, W. Wong, M. O'Keefe, J. A. McKenzie, P. Batterham, and P. J. Daborn Cyp12a4 confers lufenuron resistance in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster PNAS, September 6, 2005; 102(36): 12807 - 12812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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H. Lin, K. J. Mann, E. Starostina, R. D. Kinser, and C. W. Pikielny A Drosophila DEG/ENaC channel subunit is required for male response to female pheromones PNAS, September 6, 2005; 102(36): 12831 - 12836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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M. A. Carbone, A. Llopart, M. deAngelis, J. A. Coyne, and T. F. C. Mackay Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting the Difference in Pigmentation Between Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea Genetics, September 1, 2005; 171(1): 211 - 225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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