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The role of introns in the conservation of the metabolic genes of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Genomics - 1 Sept 2018
Mukherjee Dola, Saha Deeya, Acharya Debarun, Mukherjee Ashutosh, Chakraborty Sandip, Ghosh Tapash Chandra
Abstract excerpt
In Arabidopsis thaliana, primary metabolic genes (PMGs) are more evolutionarily conserved and intron-rich than secondary metabolic genes. We observed that PMGs are more primitive and pan-taxonomically persistent as compared to secondary (SMGs) and non-metabolic genes (NMGs). This difference in primitiveness and persistence is primarily correlated with intron number and is independent of gene expression level. We...
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