Genome

Drosophila mauritiana Sibling species of Drosophila melanogaster used in the study of mariner transposable elements Lineage: Eukaryota[15557]; Metazoa[7782]; Ecdysozoa[3517]; Arthropoda[3303]; Hexapoda[2975]; Insecta[2841]; Pterygota[2839]; Neoptera[2820]; Endopterygota[2630]; Diptera[678]; Brachycera[564]; Muscomorpha[552]; Ephydroidea[334]; Drosophilidae[331]; Drosophila[254]; Sophophora[111]; melanogaster group[80]; melanogaster subgroup[9]; Drosophila mauritiana[1]

The fruit fly Drosophila mauritiana is an organism used in the study of transposons, which are naturally occurring genetic elements capable of moving from one chromosomal location to another. The mariner element from D. mauritiana has been shown to function as a transposon in a diverse organism, the zebrafish, distinguishing itself as More...a model organism in a powerful system under study. Work is currently underway to use the fruit fly mariner elements to tag genes in the zebrafish and screen for transcriptionally active regions of the genome. Less...

Summary Sequence data:  genome assemblies: 6; sequence reads: 5  (See  Genome Assembly and Annotation report) Statistics:  median total length (Mb): 151.495  median protein count: 23239  median GC%: 42.4 NCBI Annotation Release:  100 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes. Kim BY, et al. Elife 2021 Jul 19 Comparative genomics of mitochondrial DNA in members of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Ballard JW J Mol Evol 2000 Jul  Representative (genome information for reference and representative genomes) Reference genome:   Drosophila mauritiana ASM438214v1 Submitter: The Field Museum, Department of Zoology, USA Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene Chr 2L NC_046667.1 CM015614.1 24.23 42.3 4,021 - 41 170 2,699 10 Chr 2R NC_046668.1 CM015615.1 23.54 43.5 4,884 88 99 209 3,185 24 Chr 3L NC_046669.1 CM015616.1 26.14 42.3 4,556 - 49 190 2,919 20 Chr 3R NC_046670.1 CM015617.1 28.87 43.4 5,490 - 82 195 3,613 22 Chr 4 NC_046671.1 CM015612.1 1.16 34.7 315 - - 29 91 1 Chr X NC_046672.1 CM015613.1 23.22 43.2 3,801 29 22 159 2,393 31 MT NC_005779.1 CM016415.1 0.01 22.3 13 2 22 - 37 - Un - . - 25.14 38.8 159 608 - 139 1,093 251 Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer External Resources Drosophila Genomics Resource Center Drosophila Heterochromatin Genome Project Drosophila Population Genomic Project FlyBase OrthoDB The Interactive Fly Trans-NIH Fly Initiative