About Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a cosmopolitan species of fruitfly that has been used as a model organism for over a hundred years, particularly with respect to genetics and developmental biology. It was the second metazoan (the first being Caenorhabditis elegans) to have its genome sequenced [1], and was one of 12 fruitfly genomes included in a large comparative study [2]. Ensembl Genomes imports data from FlyBase, who also have much more information about the biology of Drosophila melanogaster, and a phylogeny of the 12 sequenced fruitfly species.
Picture credit (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 FR): Nicolas Gompel 2008. Image shows a female fly.
Gene annotation
What can I find? Protein-coding and non-coding genes, splice variants, cDNA and protein sequences, non-coding RNAs.
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Comparative genomics
What can I find? Homologues, gene trees, and whole genome alignments across multiple species.
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Variation
What can I find? Short sequence variants.
More about variation in Ensembl Metazoa
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Regulation
What can I find? Microarray annotations.
More about the Ensembl Metazoa microarray annotation strategy
Variation Data
The EnsemblGenomes Drosophila melanogaster variation database has been produced using data from release 1.0 of the "50 genomes" data set from the Drosophila Population Genome Project. The data set contains over 6.7 million SNPs from two populations, one comprising 37 lines from north Carolina and the other comprising 15 lines from Malawi.