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The origin of introns and their role in eukaryogenesis: a compromise solution to the introns-early versus introns-late debate?
Eugene V Koonin
Biol Direct.
2006;
1: 22.
Published online 2006 August 14.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-1-22
PMCID:
PMC1570339
Abstract
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Is Cited by the Following 27 Articles in this Archive:
The Function of Introns
Michal Chorev, Liran Carmel
Front Genet.
2012;
3: 55.
Prepublished online 2012 March 5.
Published online 2012 April 13.
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00055
PMCID:
PMC3325483
Abstract
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Mitochondrial Adenine Nucleotide Transport and Cardioprotection
Samarjit Das, Charles Steenbergen
J Mol Cell Cardiol.
Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 February 1.
Published in final edited form as:
J Mol Cell Cardiol.
2012 February;
52
(2)
: 448–453.
Published online 2011 September 17.
doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2011.09.007
PMCID:
PMC3253329
Free in PMC on 2013/02/01
Spliceosomal Intron Insertions in Genome Compacted Ray-Finned Fishes as Evident from Phylogeny of MC Receptors, Also Supported by a Few Other GPCRs
Abhishek Kumar, Anita Bhandari, Rahul Sinha, Pankaj Goyal, Alessandro Grapputo
PLoS One.
2011;
6(8): e22046.
Published online 2011 August 5.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022046
PMCID:
PMC3151243
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide
Nick Lane
Biol Direct.
2011;
6: 35.
Published online 2011 June 30.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-35
PMCID:
PMC3152533
Abstract
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A late origin of the extant eukaryotic diversity: divergence time estimates using rare genomic changes
Diana Chernikova, Sam Motamedi, Miklós Csürös, Eugene V Koonin, Igor B Rogozin
Biol Direct.
2011;
6: 26.
Published online 2011 May 19.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-26
PMCID:
PMC3125394
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Why eukaryotic cells use introns to enhance gene expression: Splicing reduces transcription-associated mutagenesis by inhibiting topoisomerase I cutting activity
Deng-Ke Niu, Yu-Fei Yang
Biol Direct.
2011;
6: 24.
Published online 2011 May 18.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-24
PMCID:
PMC3118952
Abstract
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DNA double-strand break repair and the evolution of intron density
Ashley Farlow, Eshwar Meduri, Christian Schlötterer
Trends Genet.
2011 January;
27(1): 1–6.
doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.10.004
PMCID:
PMC3020277
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics
Eugene V Koonin
Genome Biol.
2010;
11(5): 209.
Published online 2010 May 5.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-209
PMCID:
PMC2898073
Abstract
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Tubulin evolution in insects: gene duplication and subfunctionalization provide specialized isoforms in a functionally constrained gene family
Mark G Nielsen, Sudhindra R Gadagkar, Lisa Gutzwiller
BMC Evol Biol.
2010;
10: 113.
Published online 2010 April 27.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-113
PMCID:
PMC2880298
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Nuclear expression of a group II intron is consistent with spliceosomal intron ancestry
Venkata R. Chalamcharla, M. Joan Curcio, Marlene Belfort
Genes Dev.
2010 April 15;
24(8): 827–836.
doi: 10.1101/gad.1905010
PMCID:
PMC2854396
Abstract
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A structural analysis of the group II intron active site and implications for the spliceosome
Kevin S. Keating, Navtej Toor, Philip S. Perlman, Anna Marie Pyle
RNA.
2010 January;
16(1): 1–9.
doi: 10.1261/rna.1791310
PMCID:
PMC2802019
Abstract
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Extensive mis-splicing of a bi-partite plant mitochondrial group II intron
Helen Elina, Gregory G. Brown
Nucleic Acids Res.
2010 January;
38(3): 996–1008.
Published online 2010 January.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp994
PMCID:
PMC2817487
Abstract
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PDF–911K
Supplementary Material
Conservation of intron and intein insertion sites: implications for life histories of parasitic genetic elements
Kristen S Swithers, Alireza G Senejani, Gregory P Fournier, J Peter Gogarten
BMC Evol Biol.
2009;
9: 303.
Published online 2009 December 31.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-303
PMCID:
PMC2814812
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Evolution of DNA ligases of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA viruses of eukaryotes: a case of hidden complexity
Natalya Yutin, Eugene V Koonin
Biol Direct.
2009;
4: 51.
Published online 2009 December 18.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-51
PMCID:
PMC2806865
Abstract
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Multiple gains of spliceosomal introns in a superfamily of vertebrate protease inhibitor genes
Hermann Ragg, Abhishek Kumar, Katharina Köster, Caterina Bentele, Yunjie Wang, Marc-André Frese, Natalie Prib, Olaf Krüger
BMC Evol Biol.
2009;
9: 208.
Published online 2009 August 22.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-208
PMCID:
PMC2746811
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Global discovery of primate-specific genes in the human genome
Sen-Kwan Tay, Jason Blythe, Leonard Lipovich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2009 July 21;
106(29): 12019–12024.
Published online 2009 July 6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0904569106
Correction in:
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2009 August 18;
106
(33)
: 14180.
PMCID:
PMC2715485
Abstract
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Correction
The Eukaryotic Cell Originated in the Integration and Redistribution of Hyperstructures from Communities of Prokaryotic Cells Based on Molecular Complementarity
Vic Norris, Robert Root-Bernstein
Int J Mol Sci.
2009 June;
10(6): 2611–2632.
Published online 2009 June 4.
doi: 10.3390/ijms10062611
PMCID:
PMC2705508
Abstract
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Exon definition as a potential negative force against intron losses in evolution
Deng-Ke Niu
Biol Direct.
2008;
3: 46.
Published online 2008 November 13.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-46
PMCID:
PMC2614967
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Intron Presence–Absence Polymorphisms in
Daphnia
Angela R. Omilian, Douglas G. Scofield, Michael Lynch
Mol Biol Evol.
2008 October;
25(10): 2129–2139.
Published online 2008 July 29.
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msn164
PMCID:
PMC2727387
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Origin of eukaryotic cells as a symbiosis of parasitic α-proteobacteria in the periplasm of two-membrane-bounded sexual pre-karyotes
Matej Vesteg, Juraj Krajčovič
Commun Integr Biol.
2008 Jul-Sep;
1(1): 104–113.
PMCID:
PMC2633810
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Patterns of intron gain and conservation in eukaryotic genes
Liran Carmel, Igor B Rogozin, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin
BMC Evol Biol.
2007;
7: 192.
Published online 2007 October 12.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-192
PMCID:
PMC2151770
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
The Biological Big Bang model for the major transitions in evolution
Eugene V Koonin
Biol Direct.
2007;
2: 21.
Published online 2007 August 20.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-2-21
PMCID:
PMC1973067
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The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity
Michael Lynch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2007 May 15;
104(suppl. 1): 8597–8604.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702207104
PMCID:
PMC1876435
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Protecting exons from deleterious R-loops: a potential advantage of having introns
Deng-Ke Niu
Biol Direct.
2007;
2: 11.
Published online 2007 April 25.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-2-11
PMCID:
PMC1863416
Abstract
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Conserved intron positions in ancient protein modules
Albert DG de Roos
Biol Direct.
2007;
2: 7.
Published online 2007 February 8.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-2-7
PMCID:
PMC1800838
Abstract
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Supplementary Material
Origin of phagotrophic eukaryotes as social cheaters in microbial biofilms
Gáspár Jékely
Biol Direct.
2007;
2: 3.
Published online 2007 January 19.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-2-3
PMCID:
PMC1794243
Abstract
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Did group II intron proliferation in an endosymbiont-bearing archaeon create eukaryotes?
Anthony M Poole
Biol Direct.
2006;
1: 36.
Published online 2006 December 7.
doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-1-36
PMCID:
PMC1712230
Abstract
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