Spliceosomal intron insertions in genome compacted ray-finned fishes as evident from phylogeny of MC receptors, also supported by a few other GPCRs.

<h4>Background</h4>Insertions of spliceosomal introns are very rare events during evolution of vertebrates and the mechanisms governing creation of novel intron(s) remain obscure. Largely, gene structures of melanocortin (MC) receptors are characterized by intron-less architecture. Howev...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Abhishek Kumar, Anita Bhandari, Rahul Sinha, Pankaj Goyal, Alessandro Grapputo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0022046&type=printable