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Exon definition as a potential negative force against intron losses in evolution

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have indicated that the wide variation in intron density (the number of introns per gene) among different eukaryotes largely reflects varying degrees of intron loss during evolution. The most popular model, which suggests that organisms lose introns through a mechanism i...

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Autor principal: Niu, Deng-Ke
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-3-46

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