Introns gain ground

Thomas H. Eickbush ()
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Thomas H. Eickbush: University of Rochester

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6781, 940-943

Abstract: Introns are seemingly useless gene segments in eukaryotes. One view is that they originated from mobile elements called type II introns that occur, for instance, in bacteria. That possibility finds support in work revealing a way in which type II introns can spread throughout a genome.

Date: 2000
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