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SNPing and chipping away at the fly genome

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Although Drosophila melanogaster offers a variety of refined genetic techniques, it has lagged behind other model organisms in the high-resolution genotyping arena. A newly developed set of tools addresses this deficiency and provides a very welcome addition to the fly geneticists' armory.

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Figure 1: Mapping mutations by SNP genotyping.

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  1. Steven Russell is in the Department of Genetics and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK. s.russell@gen.cam.ac.uk,

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Russell, S. SNPing and chipping away at the fly genome. Nat Methods 5, 295–296 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0408-295

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