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Multiple recent horizontal transfers of the cox1 intron in Solanaceae and extended co-conversion of flanking exons

BACKGROUND: The most frequent case of horizontal transfer in plants involves a group I intron in the mitochondrial gene cox1, which has been acquired via some 80 separate plant-to-plant transfer events among 833 diverse angiosperms examined. This homing intron encodes an endonuclease thought to prom...

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Autores principales: Sanchez-Puerta, Maria V, Abbona, Cinthia C, Zhuo, Shi, Tepe, Eric J, Bohs, Lynn, Olmstead, Richard G, Palmer, Jeffrey D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21943226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-277