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Conservation of intron and intein insertion sites: implications for life histories of parasitic genetic elements

BACKGROUND: Inteins and introns are genetic elements that are removed from proteins and RNA after translation or transcription, respectively. Previous studies have suggested that these genetic elements are found in conserved parts of the host protein. To our knowledge this type of analysis has not b...

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Autores principales: Swithers, Kristen S, Senejani, Alireza G, Fournier, Gregory P, Gogarten, J Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2814812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20043855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-303