Abstract 2810 Annotation of Contig 22 from the F Chromosomal Element of Drosophila willistoni in Collaboration with the Genomics Education Partnership

The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) is a scientific and educational partnership using comparative genomics to characterize the Muller F element, a distinct chromosomal region, from the genomes of several Drosophila species. In the well-studied fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the F element corresponds to the fourth chromosome, or “dot” chromosome. Chromosomes are made up of two major types of structures called euchromatin and heterochromatin. The dot chromosome has a unique structure, appearing as heterochromatic by many criteria, but has a relatively high gene density, which is more like euchromatin.