It is a homolog of the well-known Drosophila gene white.

We generated sequence data for 27 Drosophila genes that had been previously sequenced from other organisms.

As expected, we recovered many previously identified Drosophila genes (Table 4).

Approximately 22% (7 of 32) of the known Drosophila genes listed are neural-specific, and approximately 30% of novel transcripts were detected only in the brain.

Subsequent to the analyses described above, we carried out single-disc comparisons with microarrays that represent a nearly complete set of the approximately 14,000 annotated Drosophila genes.

Hairless, also known as H, is a well-characterized Drosophila gene.

As with the Drosophila genes, the function of the hybrid-disrupting genes found in Arabidopsis has come as a surprise.

SMAD6 is a protein that, as its name describes, is a homolog of the Drosophila gene "mothers against decapentaplegic".

However, our set is eight times larger, containing the predicted TSS for one in seven Drosophila genes.

SMAD5, as its name describes, is a homolog of the Drosophila gene: "Mothers against decapentaplegic".