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Genome sizes in the eubacteria and archaebacteria range from 0.58 megabases (Mb) to around 10 Mb [ 1].
A panel of bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) and P1 artificial chromosome (PAC) clones spanning approximately 10 megabases (Mb) of human genome sequence was initially used to characterize the pericentric inversion of human 15q11-q13 in chimpanzee.
Similarly, in birds, a polymorphism at the tenascin locus (which lies a few megabases proximal to Tlr4 in mice) predicts susceptibility to Gram-negative infection [ 30], suggesting that it may lie in linkage disequilibrium with a particular form of the avian Tlr4 gene.
We compared the human genome regions covered by CSEs from Cel2 and MGSCv3 and found that about 90 megabases (Mb) (approximately 3% of the whole human genome) are covered by all CSEs.
Here, we report the isolation and analysis of genomic sequences from eight candidate regions representing both gene-rich and gene-poor regions of the Drosophila genome, totaling over 1.25 megabases (Mb) of DNA sequence.