The Origin of Recent Introns: Transposons?

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2004 Dec 4

PMID 15575977

Citations 20

Authors

Scott W Roy

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Abstract

The long-standing question of how genes acquire introns has provoked much debate. A recent study makes considerable progress by identifying numerous recently gained introns in nematodes - although it remains difficult to distinguish definitively between models of intron gain.

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