Multiple recent horizontal transfers of the <it>cox1 </it>intron in Solanaceae and extended co-conversion of flanking exons
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The most frequent case of horizontal transfer in plants involves a group I intron in the mitochondrial gene <it>cox1</it>, which has been acquired via some 80 separate plant-to-plant transfer events among 833 diverse angi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-09-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/277 |