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"The genome sequence of Drosophila
melanogaster," by Mark. D
Adams and 197 others, Science, 287(5461):2185-95, 24 March 2000.
[Authors' affiliations: 35 institutions
worldwide]
Abstract: "The fly Drosophila
melanogaster is one of the most intensively studied organisms in biology
and serves as a model system for the investigation of many developmental and
cellular processes common to higher eukaryotes, including humans. We have
determined the nucleotide sequence of nearly all of the ~120-megabase
euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome using a whole-genome
shotgun sequencing strategy supported by extensive clone-based sequence and a
high-quality bacterial artificial chromosome physical map. Efforts are under
way to close the remaining gaps; however, the sequence is of sufficient
accuracy and contiguity to be declared substantially complete and to support
an initial analysis of genome structure and preliminary gene annotation and
interpretation. The genome encodes ~13,600 genes, somewhat fewer than the
smaller Caenorhabditis elegans genome, but with comparable functional
diversity."
This Science paper from the spring of
2000, the product of a large collaboration spearheaded by J. Craig Venter
(then president of Celera Genomics), was cited 63 times in
current journal articles indexed in the ISI database during January-February
2002. With its latest two-month total, this is currently the third-most-cited
biology paper published in the last two years, aside from reviews. Prior to
the most recent bimonthly count, citations to the paper have accrued as
follows:
November-December 2001: 77 citations
September-October 2001: 69
July-August 2001: 75
May-June 2001: 80
March-April 2001: 102
January-February 2001: 78
November-December 2000: 59
September-October 2000: 47
July-August 2000: 34
May-June 2000: 16
March-April 2000: 11
Total citations to date: 711
SOURCE: Hot
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organization, journal, field, and more. Total citations, as well as citations
accrued during successive bimonthly periods, can be assessed and graphed. An
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