Table 2 Location of the satellite DNAs on the chromosomes of the D. melanogaster species complex

	D. melanogaster	D. simulans	D. mauritiana	D. sechellia
(AATAT)_n	Y, X, III, IV	Y, IV	Y, IV	Y, IV
(AATAG)_n	Y, II, III^{^a}	Y, X, IV	IV	Y, X
359/372	X^{^b}, III^{^b}	II^{^b}, III^{^b}	X^{^b}, II or III^{^b}	X^{^b}
260	X^{^b}, III^{^b}, II	None	X^{^b}, II or III^{^b}	None
(AATAGAC)_n	Y	None	None	None
(AATAC)_n	Y	None	None	Y, IV
(AATAAAC)_n	Y	Y	None	None
IGS	X, Y	X, Y^{^c}	X, Y	X (not on Y^{^c}^,^{^d})
(AAGAG)_n	X, Y, II, III, IV	X, Y	Y	X
Prod	II, III	None	None	None
Dodeca	Y^{^e}, III	II, III	II, III	II, III
(AACAC)_n	Y, II	None	II^{^a}, III^{^a}	None
(GAACAGAACATGTTC)_n	None	II, III	II, III, X^{^a}, Y^{^a}	II, III
(AACAAAC)_n	II^{^a}	Y	II^{^a}, III^{^a}	None
(AAGAC)_n	Y, II	None	None	None
(AAAAC)_n	Y	None	None	Y
(AAGAGAG)_n	Y, II	Y	None	None
(TAGA)_n	X	X	X	X, IV

rDNA, ribosomal DNA.
↵a Indicates the sequences that are obviously low in abundance.
↵b Likely cross-hybridization among 359 bp, 372 bp, 260 bp, and other related repeats.
↵c Without rDNA.
↵d Roy et al. (2005) reports the presence of rDNA (using Py12 and 240 bp probes) on D. sechellia Y, although much weaker than X rDNA. This may be because our IGS-240 probe does not cover the entire length of the 240 bp sequence, and our probe sequence does not hybridize well to D. sechellia IGS.
↵e Yadlapalli and Yamashita (2013) described its presence on Y but this chromosome spread did not find dodeca on Y, possibly due to differences in hybridization conditions or strain.