Article
The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2013
Verhelst Bram, Van de Peer Yves, Rouzé Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Genes in pieces and spliceosomal introns are a landmark of eukaryotes, with intron invasion usually assumed to have happened early on in evolution. Here, we analyze the intron landscape of Micromonas, a unicellular green alga in the Mamiellophyceae lineage, demonstrating the coexistence of several classes of introns and the occurrence of recent massive intron invasion. This study focuses on two strains, CCMP1545...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Biological Evolution
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Chlorophyta
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Plant
- Introns
- Phylogeny