articleGenome ResearchApr 8, 2014BRONZE OA

Natural variation in genome architecture among 205 Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel lines

North Carolina State University · SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · +8 more institutions

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Abstract

The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP) is a community resource of 205 sequenced inbred lines, derived to improve our understanding of the effects of naturally occurring genetic variation on molecular and organismal phenotypes. We used an integrated genotyping strategy to identify 4,853,802 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 1,296,080 non-SNP variants. Our molecular population genomic analyses show higher deletion than insertion mutation rates and stronger purifying selection on deletions. Weaker selection on insertions than deletions is consistent with our observed distribution of genome size determined by flow cytometry, which is skewed toward larger genomes. Insertion/deletion and…

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