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Repeated DNA Sequences in Drosophila

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In this chapter we will present a short review of the properties of repeated DNA sequences in Drosophila. Since Drosophila melanogaster has been the most extensively characterized species within this genus, most of our review will be focused on the structure of its genome. The chromosomal DNA of D. melanogaster can be broadly separated into three components by reassociation kinetics. Approximately two-thirds of this DNA, about 110,000 kilobases, is nonrepetitious; the remainder is reiterated and can be further subdivided into sequences that are either highly repetitive, with an average reiteration frequency of about 24,000, or moderately repetitive, with a reiteration frequency usually falling in a range of 10 to 100 copies per haploid genome. Highly repeated and moderately repeated DNA sequences each compose about one-sixth of the D. melanogaster DNA (1–3).

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Young, M.W. (1981). Repeated DNA Sequences in Drosophila. In: Setlow, J.K., Hollaender, A. (eds) Genetic Engineering. Genetic Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7075-2_5

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