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Abstract
Recent studies have demonstrated that transposable elements in maize and Drosophila are spliced from pre-mRNA. These transposable element introns represent the first examples of recent addition of introns into nuclear genes. The eight reported examples of transposable element splicing include members of the maize Ac/Ds and Spm/dSpm and the Drosophila P and 412 element families. The details of the splicing of these transposable elements and their relevance to models of intron origin are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1334914 DOI: 10.1007/bf00133728
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetica ISSN: 0016-6707 Impact factor: 1.082