Article
Mobile Introns Shape the Genetic Diversity of Their Host Genes.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2017
Repar Jelena, Warnecke Tobias
Abstract excerpt
Self-splicing introns populate several highly conserved protein-coding genes in fungal and plant mitochondria. In fungi, many of these introns have retained their ability to spread to intron-free target sites, often assisted by intron-encoded endonucleases that initiate the homing process. Here, leveraging population genomic data from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and Lachancea kluyveri, we...
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