Abstract
We report the isolation of the Drosophila melanogaster homologue of the rat ribosomal protein L11 gene. The gene is present in the Drosophila genome at polytene chromosome location 56D, on the right arm of the second chromosome. The Drosophila DL11 gene appears to encode two messages of 0.8 and 0.9 kb which are expressed throughout development with variations in their relative abundance. DL11 codes for a predicted protein of 184 amino acids with a molecular mass of 21.1 kDa.
