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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 Celera Genomic's J.
Craig Venter, was cited 62 times in current journal articles
indexed in the ISI database during July-August 2001. No other biology paper
published in the last two years attracted as many citations during that
two-month period. In fact, for most of 2001 to date, this has been biology's
most-cited paper. Prior to the most recent bimonthly count, citations to the
paper have accrued as follows:
May-June 2001: 78 citations
March-April 2001: 101
January-February 2001: 68
November-December 2000: 47
September-October 2000: 40
July-August 2000: 22
May-June 2000: 12
March-April 2000: 8
Total citations to date: 438
SOURCE: Hot
Papers Database (Available from the ISI
Research Services Group in a CD-ROM version containing data on
hundreds of highly cited papers published during the last two years.
User interface permits searching by author, organization, journal,
field, and more. Total citations, as well as citations accrued during
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most recent bimonthly data are mailed with each new issue, six times a
year.)
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