Article
De novo synthesis of an intron by the maize transposable element Dissociation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Dec 1994
Giroux M J, Clancy M, Baier J, Ingham L, McCarty D, Hannah L C
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms by which introns are gained or lost in the evolution of eukaryotic genes remain poorly understood. The discovery that transposable elements sometimes alter RNA splicing to allow partial or imperfect removal of the element from the primary transcripts suggests that transposons are a potential and continuing source of new introns. To date, splicing events that precisely restore the wild-type RNA...
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