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Highly conserved gene order and numerous novel repetitive elements in genomic regions linked to wing pattern variation in Heliconius butterflies

Riccardo Papa1,2,3*, Clayton M Morrison4, James R Walters5, Brian A Counterman6, Rui Chen4,7,8, Georg Halder4,9, Laura Ferguson10, Nicola Chamberlain11, Richard ffrench-Constant12, Durrell D Kapan13, Chris D Jiggins10, Robert D Reed2 and William O McMillan1,6

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA

2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA

3 Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

4 Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

5 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

6 Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

7 Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

8 Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

9 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas – M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

10 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

11 FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

12 Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK

13 Center for Conservation Research and Training, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:345 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-345

Published: 22 July 2008

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Additional File 1:

Sequences of the Heliconius novel repetitive elements. Core Motif sequences of the nine novel Heliconius repetitive elements identified with RepeatFinder in BAC sequences from H. erato (accession numbers: AC193804, AC216670) and H. melpomene (accession numbers: CR974474, CT955980).

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