Spliceosomal introns in Trichomonas vaginalis revisited

Abstract Background The human protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis is an organism of interest for understanding eukaryotic evolution. Despite having an unusually large genome and a rich gene repertoire among protists, spliceosomal introns in T. vaginalis appear rare: only 62 putative introns hav...

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Main Authors: Shuqi E. Wang, Abdul S. Amir, Tai Nguyen, Anthony M. Poole, Augusto Simoes-Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-018-3196-7