Eukaryota [superkindom] -> Animalia/Metazoa [kindom] -> Arthropoda [phylum] -> insecta [class] -> Diptera [order] -> Drosophilidae [family] -> (Drosophila melanogaster)

Year	Name	Strain	Size [Exact Length]	Publication [Submitted Date]	Predicted Genes [Confirmed]	Sequence [GenBank #]	Web
2000	Drosophila melanogaster	.	137 Mb []	Adams, et al., Science, 287(5461):2185-2195 (2000)	13500?	NCBI	BDG [usa], gadfly [usa]

for each chromosome
(to read the news, such as the forthcoming Release 3, see here)

Year	Chromosome	Size [Exact Length]	Pub	Predicted Genes [Confirmed]	Sequence [GenBank #]	Web
2000-2002	1 (or X)	27 Mb	.	num genes [confirmed]	.	web
2000-2002	2	48.5 Mb	.	num genes [confirmed]	.	web
2000-2002	3	52.4 Mb	.	num genes [confirmed]	.	web
2000-2002	4	1.9 Mb	.	num genes [confirmed]	.	web
2000-2002	Y	2.9 Mb	.	num genes [confirmed]	.	web