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Nonsense-Mediated Decay Enables Intron Gain in Drosophila

Intron number varies considerably among genomes, but despite their fundamental importance, the mutational mechanisms and evolutionary processes underlying the expansion of intron number remain unknown. Here we show that Drosophila, in contrast to most eukaryotic lineages, is still undergoing a drama...

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Autores principales: Farlow, Ashley, Meduri, Eshwar, Dolezal, Marlies, Hua, Liushuai, Schlötterer, Christian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20107520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000819