Current Biology
Volume 8, Issue 16, 30 July 1998, Pages R560-R563
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Molecular evolution: Recent cases of spliceosomal intron gain?

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Abstract

The ‘introns-late’ theory holds that spliceosomal introns have been added to genes during eukaryotic evolution. Few clear examples of recent intron gains have been well documented, but two such cases have now been reported, one with possible identification of the source of the intron.

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JM Logsdon, A Stoltzfus and WF Doolittle, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4H7.

E-mail address for JM Logsdon: [email protected].