Genome evolution: where do new introns come f...

Curr Biol. 2012 Jul 10;22(13):R529-31.

Genome evolution: where do new introns come from?

Roy SW, Irimia M.

Source

Department of Biology, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.

Abstract

A new study reports creation of spliceosomal introns in multiple related fungal species by proliferation of cryptic elements. Resonances to a case in unrelated algae suggest such elements hold general answers to long-standing mysteries of intron evolution.

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PMID:

22790002

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