The spread of the first introns in proto-eukaryotic paralogs
Analysis of ancestral intron positions in two large sets of duplicated gene families suggests that introns may have originated earlier on in eukaryogenesis, before other complex eukaryotic features were established.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03426-5 |