Maps of Fruit Fly Chromatin (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Maps of Fruit Fly Chromatin

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The fruit fly has four pairs of chromosomes: an X/Y pair (the chromosomes in the illustration are from a male fly cell but just the X is shown because the Y is very difficult to map) and three autosomes labeled 2, 3, and 4. The fourth chromosome (bottom right) is so tiny that it is often ignored.

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Chromatin modENCODE team and Nature

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