Article
Proto-splice site model of intron origin.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Aug 1991
Dibb N J
Abstract excerpt
It is proposed that nuclear pre-mRNA introns (classical introns) were first generated as by-products during the evolution of alternative splicing. They were formed whenever two splice sites within the coding sequence of ancestral genes were used at a frequency that removed the coding constraint from the intervening sequence. Once introns had evolved, it is suggested that they were spread by the splicing machinery...
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