An Overview of the Introns-First Theory

2009/09/23 by David Penny, Marc P. Hoeppner, Anthony M. Poole +2 · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology #RNA Research and Splicing #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

paper · doi:10.1007/s00239-009-9279-5

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Citations

• Evaluating hypotheses for the origin of eukaryotes
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• The origin of the eukaryotic cell: A genomic investigation
• Intron evolution as a population-genetic process
• Eukaryotic Intron Loss
• Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
• The Evolutionary Mechanics of Domain Organization in Proteomes and the Rise of Modularity in the Protein World
• On the Possibility of Constructive Neutral Evolution
• Origins and Evolution of Spliceosomal Introns

Cited by

• Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns
• Intron [wikipedia]