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TWiEVO 16: Breaking in the making of genes

  • February 25, 2017
  • Tagged as: DNA transposon, evolution, intron, introner, mRNA, nucleosome, picoeukaryote
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Nels and Vincent reveal how introns – the parts of pre-mRNAs that are removed by splicing – were generated by DNA transposons in two different picoeukaryotes.

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