Large-scale intron conservation and order-of-magnitude variation in intron loss/gain rates in apicomplexan evolution.

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The age of modern introns and the evolutionary forces controlling intron loss and gain remain matters of much debate. In the case of the apicomplexan malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, previous studies have shown that while the positions of two thirds of P. falciparum introns are not shared with surveyed non-apicomplexans (leaving open the possibility that they were relatively recently gained), 99.1% are...

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