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Learning to live together: mutualism between self-splicing introns and their hosts
Group I and II introns can be considered as molecular parasites that interrupt protein-coding and structural RNA genes in all domains of life. They function as self-splicing ribozymes and thereby limit the phenotypic costs associated with disruption of a host gene while they act as mobile DNA elemen...
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073962/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21481283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-22 |