Comparative genomics of the eukaryotes.
Rubin GM,
Yandell MD,
Wortman JR,
Gabor Miklos GL,
Nelson CR,
Hariharan IK,
Fortini ME,
Li PW,
Apweiler R,
Fleischmann W,
Cherry JM,
Henikoff S,
Skupski MP,
Misra S,
Ashburner M,
Birney E,
Boguski MS,
Brody T,
Brokstein P,
Celniker SE,
Chervitz SA,
Coates D,
Cravchik A,
Gabrielian A,
Galle RF,
Gelbart WM,
George RA,
Goldstein LS,
Gong F,
Guan P,
Harris NL,
Hay BA,
Hoskins RA,
Li J,
Li Z,
Hynes RO,
Jones SJ,
Kuehl PM,
Lemaitre B,
Littleton JT,
Morrison DK,
Mungall C,
O'Farrell PH,
Pickeral OK,
Shue C,
Vosshall LB,
Zhang J,
Zhao Q,
Zheng XH,
Lewis S.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
A comparative analysis of the genomes of Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae-and the proteins they are predicted to encode-was undertaken in the context of cellular, developmental, and evolutionary processes. The nonredundant protein sets of flies and worms are similar in size and are only twice that of yeast, but different gene families are expanded in each genome, and the multidomain proteins and signaling pathways of the fly and worm are far more complex than those of yeast. The fly has orthologs to 177 of the 289 human disease genes examined and provides the foundation for rapid analysis of some of the basic processes involved in human disease.
PMID: 10731134 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]