The genome of Calliphora. Analysis by DNA reassociation kinetics.

The size and nucleotide sequence complexity of the Calliphora vicina genome has been determined from the kinetics of reassociation of its DNA. Unique sequence DNA comprises 80% of the genome and the remainder is divided into medium (14%) and highly repetitive sequences (6%), which are repeated roughly 150 times and more. The size of the Calliphora genome was calculated relative to the DNA from T4-phage to be 1.5--1.9 X 10(11) daltons.