Drosophila simulans strain white501 WGS sequencing project. Drosophila simulans strain:white501

D. simulans was selected as a high priority organism by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), since complete genome sequence will allow for important advances into the understanding of evolutionary mechanisms that control divergence in fruit flies. The whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing project includes a ~4-fold coverage of D. simulans strain white501 (w501) plus 1x coverage of 6 other strains. The white501 stock was obtained from the Drosophila Species Stock Center in Bowling Green, OH in 1997. It was subsequently inbred by sib-pair mating for nine generations by Daniel Barbash at UC Davis. The provenance of this line is poorly documented. However, it is likely derived from a Drosophila simulans stock collected in North America in the 1940's. The D. simulans genome was sequenced and assembled by the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine. The whole genome shotgun (WGS) project has the project accession AAGH00000000. This version of the project (01) has the accession number AAGH01000000, and consists of sequences AAGH01000001-AAGH01031198.