The biology of intron gain and loss

2005/11/15 by Daniel C. Jeffares, Daniel Jeffares, Tobias Mourier +1 · 3 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #RNA Research and Splicing #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #RNA modifications and cancer

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2005.10.006

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Citations

• Why genes in pieces?
• Selection for short introns in highly expressed genes
• A role for reverse transcripts in gene conversion
• A Kingdom-Level Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Combined Protein Data
• Intron evolution as a population-genetic process
• Eukaryotic Intron Loss
• Microsporidia: Biology and Evolution of Highly Reduced Intracellular Parasites
• Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
• The Emergence of a Synthetic Theory of Intron Evolution

Cited by

• Introns: The Functional Benefits of Introns in Genomes
• DNA double-strand break repair and the evolution of intron density
• Intron [wikipedia]