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Review
. 1992;86(1-3):295-303.
doi: 10.1007/BF00133728.

The splicing of transposable elements and its role in intron evolution

M Purugganan  1 , S Wessler
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Review

The splicing of transposable elements and its role in intron evolution

M Purugganan et al. Genetica. 1992.

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.

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