Multiple gains of spliceosomal introns in a superfamily of vertebrate protease inhibitor genes
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Intron gains reportedly are very rare during evolution of vertebrates, and the mechanisms underlying their creation are largely unknown. Previous investigations have shown that, during metazoan radiation, the exon-intron patterns of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/208 |